The Ghosts of Songs: The Film Art of the Black Audio Film Collective

by Kodwo Eshun

The Ghosts of Songs is the first book-length exploration of the work of the Black Audio Film Collective. The collective, founded in 1982 and dissolved in 1998, comprised John Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul, Reece Auguiste, Avril Johnson, Trevor Mathison, Edward George and David Lawson, and for sixteen years their films addressed the social, political and racial crises of Thatcher's Britain and beyond. However, it would be limiting their achievement to see...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846310148
• ISBN13: 9781846310140
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.5" x 11.7"