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Capolavoro dell'afrofuturismo, "Più brillante del sole" è tra le opere più originali emerse da quella composita galassia che, nell'Inghilterra di fine Novecento, mescolò estetiche radicali, riflessione filosofica e sensibilità rave. Uscito originariamente nel 1998 e mai tradotto prima in italiano, il classico di Kodwo Eshun resta un tentativo tuttora senza eredi di convergenza tra storia della musica nera, fantascienza e theory fiction: prendendo spunto dai suoni della techno, del jazz, del dub e dell'hip hop, "Più brillante del sole" non si limita alla mera critica musicale, ma si erge a manifesto di un'era prossima ventura in cui i concetti di razza, autenticità e appartenenza deflagrano in miriadi di frammenti piovuti dal futuro. Sun Ra e Alice Coltrane, Lee Perry e i Public Enemy, Drexciya e Underground Resistance diventano così divinità di un pantheon postumano al contempo terrificante e liberatorio, in un'odissea utopico-distopica tra i più reconditi meandri dell'immaginario nato dalla diaspora africana.
- ISBN: 8880560891
- Casa Editrice: Produzioni Nero
- Pagine: 256
- Data di uscita: 01-09-2021
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The title of the book refers to the hook of a 1992 UK breakbeat record entitled "Valley of the Shadows" or "31 seconds". Like the title, much of what Eshun does here is bring us back to those intimate moments in recent and distant past and highlight the unforeseen outcomes and influences in the bodi Leggi tutto
Music reviewing at its best and most abstract. For lovers of music and language.
Afro-futurism via Deleuze, Ballard and Harraway. Music writing as thought experiment. Still fresh.
From what I can tell, Eshun is doing with language exactly what Attali suggests can be done with music to foster creative and social freedom. 'More Brilliant Than the Sun" is really a musical voyage crisscrossing the black Atlantic and suggestive of the outer realms that Sun Ra proffers. It's also a Leggi tutto
This book made me realize that Electronic music is the past, present, and future.
The style of it was hardly bearable. There are some great ideas, but I disagree with the overall argument of the book. To me, machine music is not liberation, but a process analogous to the effect of capitalism in society - a radical alienation of human labor and a loss of individuality. Most of the Leggi tutto
Eshun is a concept engineer who establishes a gameplan for hiphop & techno in the laboratory of highly-synthesized everyday life. I suggest people who don't like Eshun's style to approach the book as a dotcom bubble-era publicity campaign for Black Atlantic music from the 70s to 90s. Sometimes liber Leggi tutto
despite it faults and supposed irony with the heavy emphasis on afro-futurism that seems to be dying after the glimpse of 21th century (cultural diminishment-assimilation of our corporate-hyperreal adage), i still can't think many books that manages to transcends it's materialistic presupposition th Leggi tutto
Tengo algunas dudas: ¿dónde está exactamente la "ficción" sónica? No está en los textos de Kodwo Eshun que componen el libro, que más bien son prosas poético-teóricas pero estrictamente no ficcionales. Tampoco queda claro por qué nombrar así al dispositivo electrónico de los remixes y el breakbeat. Leggi tutto
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