Feenin
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Feenin

R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Feenin

R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology

About this book

In Feenin, Alexander Ghedi Weheliye traces R&B music's continuing centrality in Black life since the late 1970s. Focusing on various musical production and reproduction technologies such as auto-tune and the materiality of the BlackFem singing voice, Weheliye counteracts the widespread popular and scholarly narratives of the genre's decline and death. He shows how R&B remains a thriving venue for the expression of Black thought and life and a primary archive of the contemporary moment. Among other topics, Weheliye discusses the postdisco evolution of house music in Chicago and techno in Detroit, Prince and David Bowie in relation to appropriations of Blackness and Euro-whiteness in the 1980s, how the BlackFem voice functions as a repository of Black knowledge, the methods contemporary R&B musicians use to bring attention to Black Lives Matter, and the ways vocal distortion technologies such as the vocoder demonstrate Black music's relevance to discussions of humanism and posthumanism. Ultimately, Feenin represents Weheliye's capacious thinking about R&B as the site through which to consider questions of Blackness, technology, history, humanity, community, diaspora, and nationhood.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Track 0.0. Good Days: R&B Music and Critical Fabulation in the Frequencies of the Now
  4. Track 1.0. Engendering Phonographies: Sonic Technologies of Blackness 23 A Response to Tavia Nyong’o
  5. Track 2.0. “Feenin”: Posthuman Voices in R&B Music
  6. Track 3.0. Rhythms of Relation: Black Popular Music and Mobile Technologies
  7. Interlude 1: Calling My Phone
  8. Track 4.0. My Volk to Come: Specters of Peoplehood in Diaspora Discourse and Afro-German Popular Music
  9. Track 5.0. “White Brothers with No Soul”: UnTuning the Historiography of Berlin Techno
  10. Interlude 2: Don’t Take It Away
  11. Track 6.0. New Waves, Shifting Terrains: Prince’s and David Bowie’s Transatlantic Crossovers
  12. Interlude 3: #BeyondDeepBrandyAlbumCuts
  13. Track 7.0. “Sounding That Precarious Existence”: On R&B Music, Technology, and Blackness
  14. Track 8.0. “Scream My Name Like a Protest”: R&B Music as BlackFem Technology of Humanity in the Age of #Blacklivesmatter
  15. Interlude 4: Songify Your Life
  16. Track 9.0. 808s and Heartbreak
  17. Track 10.0. Wayward Shuddering, Beautiful Tremors (AGW’s Quiet Storm Remix)
  18. Sources
  19. Index