Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production

by Anthony Reed

Book Overview

In Soundworks Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958-1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially. Soundwork is Reed's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478011270
• ISBN13: 9781478011279
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"