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Soundscapes White Stages explores the role of sound in understanding the African Diaspora on both sides of the Atlantic, from the City of Light to the islands of the French Antilles.
From the writings of European travelers in the seventeenth century to shortwave radio transmissions in the early twentieth century, Edwin C, Hill Jr. uses music, folk song, film, and poetry to listen for the tragic cri nègre,

Building a conceptualization of black Atlantic sound inspired by Frantz Fanon's pioneering work on colonial speech and desire, Hill contends that sound constitutes a terrain of contestation, both violent and pleasurable, where colonial and anticolonial ideas about race and gender are critically imagined, inscribed, explored, and resisted.
In the process, this book explores the dreams and realizations of black diasporic mobility and separation as represented by some of its most powerful soundtexts and cultural practitioners, and it poses questions about their legacies for us today.


In the process, thee dreams and realities of Black Atlantic mobility and separation as represented by some
Snag Your Copy Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning Of Francophone Sound In The Black Atlantic Designed By Edwin C. Hill Conveyed In EText
of its most powerful soundtexts and cultural practitioners, such as the poetry of LéonGontran Damasa founder of the Négritude movementand Josephine Bakers performance in thefilm Princesse Tam Tam.
As the first in Johns Hopkinss new series on the African Diaspora, this book offers new insight into the legacies of these exceptional artists and their global influence, .