{"product_id":"teklife-ghettoville-eski-the-sonic-ecologies-of-black-music-in-the-early-21st-century-9781912685790","title":"Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow black electronic dance music makes it possible to reorganize life within the contemporary city.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTeklife, Ghettoville, Eski\u003c\/i\u003e argues that Black electronic dance music produces sonic ecologies of Blackness that expose and reorder the contemporary racialization of the urban--ecologies that can never simply be reduced to their geographical and racial context. Dhanveer Singh Brar makes the case for Black electronic dance music as the cutting-edge aesthetic project of the diaspora, which due to the music's class character makes it possible to reorganize life within the contemporary city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eClosely analysing the Footwork scene in South and West Chicago, the Grime scene in East London, and the output of the South London producer Actress, Brar pays attention to the way each of these critically acclaimed musical projects experiment with aesthetic form through an experimentation of the social. Through explicitly theoretical means, \u003ci\u003eTeklife, Ghettoville, Eski\u003c\/i\u003e foregrounds the sonic specificity of 12 records, EPs, albums, radio broadcasts, and recorded performances to make the case that Footwork, Grime, and Actress dissolve racialized spatial constraints that are thought to surround Black social life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePushing the critical debates concerning the phonic materiality of blackness, undercommons, and aesthetic sociality in new directions, \u003ci\u003eTeklife, Ghettoville, Eski\u003c\/i\u003e rethinks these concepts through concrete examples of contemporary black electronic dance music production that allows for a theorization of the way Footwork, Grime, and Actress have--through their experiments in blackness--generated genuine alternatives to the functioning of the city under financialized racial capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brar, Dhanveer Singh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/27\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Goldsmiths Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781912685790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192","brand":"Dhanveer Singh Brar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33052724822091,"sku":"9781912685790","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_55cbaa22-d121-42b3-83a5-0ad9d5f130fe.jpg?v=1612228278","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/teklife-ghettoville-eski-the-sonic-ecologies-of-black-music-in-the-early-21st-century-9781912685790","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}