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Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity
Tsitsi Ella Jaji
- Engages texts and events pertaining to both the Anglophone and Francophone worlds
- Draws on a wide array of critical, archival, literary, visual, and sonic sources
- Features a companion website that includes clips of recorded music and films referred to in the text, as well as additional illustrations, background information, and links to related materials on other sites
$55.00
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Published: 07 February 2014
288 Pages | 10 illus.
6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches
ISBN: 9780199936397
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Africa in Stereo
Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity
Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Description
Africa in Stereo analyzes how Africans have engaged with African American music and its representations in the long twentieth century (1890-2011) to offer a new cultural history attesting to pan-Africanism's ongoing and open theoretical potential. Tsitsi Jaji argues that African American popular music appealed to continental Africans as a unit of cultural prestige, a site of pleasure, and most importantly, an expressive form already encoded with strategies of creative resistance to racial hegemony. Ghana, Senegal and South Africa are considered as three distinctive sites where longstanding pan-African political and cultural affiliations gave expression to transnational black solidarity. The book shows how such transnational ties fostered what Jaji terms "stereomodernism." Attending to the specificity of various media through which music was transmitted and interpreted-poetry, novels, films, recordings, festivals, live performances and websites-stereomodernism accounts for the role of cultural practice in the emergence of solidarity, tapping music's capacity to refresh our understanding of twentieth-century black transnational ties.
Africa in Stereo
Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity
Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
1. Stereomodernism: Amplifying the Black Atlantic
2. Sight-Reading: Early Black South African Transcriptions of Freedom
3. Négritude Musicology: Poetry, Performance, and Statecraft in Senegal
4. What Women Want: Selling Hi-Fi in Consumer Magazines and Film
5. "Soul to Soul": Echolocating Histories of Slavery and Freedom from Ghana
6. Pirates Choice: Hacking into (Post-)Pan-African Futures
Epilogue: Singing Stones
Bibliography
Notes
Africa in Stereo
Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity
Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Author Information
Tsitsi Ella Jaji is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
Africa in Stereo
Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity
Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Reviews and Awards
"Africa in Stereo raises the bar with new insights into both the sonic and visual realms of art. Transcriptions, performance, poetry, print and new media formats elucidate how Africans on the continent and in the diaspora have been engaged in a continuous dialogue and exchange of cultural particulars throughout the twentieth century. A major contribution is the author's willingness to move beyond a particular village or ethnic group (conventional units of ethnographic analysis) and focus instead on South Africa, Senegal and Ghana, drawing from an interesting array of archival materials to highlight and tease out the forces that made the impulse towards solidarity between Africa and the diaspora possible." -- Mumbua Kioko, Volume! The French journal of popular music studies
"Meticulously researched, historically and politically exigent, and adventurous in its archival reach, Africa in Stereo is a path-breaking book that pulsates to the beat of literary, visual, sonic and cultural studies. Tsitsi Jaji has built a bold new sound system for diaspora studies that challenges us to listen closely to the crosscurrents of African aesthetic technologies that forge and inform our modern world." --Daphne Brooks, author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910
"This book is unique in its attentiveness to the intricacies, significances and pleasures of listening, notation and reading. It recasts - with great subtlety and eloquence - our understanding o fthe sonic, visual, and literary practices used by Africans in the elaboration and pursuit of pan-Africanism at home and abroad." --Bhekizizwe Peterson, author of Monarchs, Missionaries, and African Intellectuals
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Africa in Stereo
Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity
Tsitsi Ella Jaji
- Engages texts and events pertaining to both the Anglophone and Francophone worlds
- Draws on a wide array of critical, archival, literary, visual, and sonic sources
- Features a companion website that includes clips of recorded music and films referred to in the text, as well as additional illustrations, background information, and links to related materials on other sites
$55.00
Paperback
Published: 07 February 2014
288 Pages | 10 illus.
6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches
ISBN: 9780199936397
Also Available As:
Ebook
This title is available as an ebook. To purchase, visit your preferred ebook provider.
Also Available In:
Instructor Inspection Copy Request
Bookseller Code (06)
Africa in Stereo
Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity
Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Description
Africa in Stereo analyzes how Africans have engaged with African American music and its representations in the long twentieth century (1890-2011) to offer a new cultural history attesting to pan-Africanism's ongoing and open theoretical potential. Tsitsi Jaji argues that African American popular music appealed to continental Africans as a unit of cultural prestige, a site of pleasure, and most importantly, an expressive form already encoded with strategies of creative resistance to racial hegemony. Ghana, Senegal and South Africa are considered as three distinctive sites where longstanding pan-African political and cultural affiliations gave expression to transnational black solidarity. The book shows how such transnational ties fostered what Jaji terms "stereomodernism." Attending to the specificity of various media through which music was transmitted and interpreted-poetry, novels, films, recordings, festivals, live performances and websites-stereomodernism accounts for the role of cultural practice in the emergence of solidarity, tapping music's capacity to refresh our understanding of twentieth-century black transnational ties.
Africa in Stereo
Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity
Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
1. Stereomodernism: Amplifying the Black Atlantic
2. Sight-Reading: Early Black South African Transcriptions of Freedom
3. Négritude Musicology: Poetry, Performance, and Statecraft in Senegal
4. What Women Want: Selling Hi-Fi in Consumer Magazines and Film
5. "Soul to Soul": Echolocating Histories of Slavery and Freedom from Ghana
6. Pirates Choice: Hacking into (Post-)Pan-African Futures
Epilogue: Singing Stones
Bibliography
Notes
Africa in Stereo
Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity
Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Author Information
Tsitsi Ella Jaji is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
Africa in Stereo
Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity
Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Reviews and Awards
"Africa in Stereo raises the bar with new insights into both the sonic and visual realms of art. Transcriptions, performance, poetry, print and new media formats elucidate how Africans on the continent and in the diaspora have been engaged in a continuous dialogue and exchange of cultural particulars throughout the twentieth century. A major contribution is the author's willingness to move beyond a particular village or ethnic group (conventional units of ethnographic analysis) and focus instead on South Africa, Senegal and Ghana, drawing from an interesting array of archival materials to highlight and tease out the forces that made the impulse towards solidarity between Africa and the diaspora possible." -- Mumbua Kioko, Volume! The French journal of popular music studies
"Meticulously researched, historically and politically exigent, and adventurous in its archival reach, Africa in Stereo is a path-breaking book that pulsates to the beat of literary, visual, sonic and cultural studies. Tsitsi Jaji has built a bold new sound system for diaspora studies that challenges us to listen closely to the crosscurrents of African aesthetic technologies that forge and inform our modern world." --Daphne Brooks, author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910
"This book is unique in its attentiveness to the intricacies, significances and pleasures of listening, notation and reading. It recasts - with great subtlety and eloquence - our understanding o fthe sonic, visual, and literary practices used by Africans in the elaboration and pursuit of pan-Africanism at home and abroad." --Bhekizizwe Peterson, author of Monarchs, Missionaries, and African Intellectuals
Also of Interest
Necessary Noise
Chérie Rivers Ndaliko
Experimentalisms in Practice
Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, Eduardo Herrera, and Alejandro L. Madrid
Necessary Noise
Chérie Rivers Ndaliko
Experimentalisms in Practice
Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, Eduardo Herrera, and Alejandro L. Madrid
Debussy's Critics
Alexandra Kieffer
Absolute Music
Mark Evan Bonds