Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity

Synopsis

'africa In Stereo' Examines The Role That African American Music Has Played In The Pan-africanist Imagination Since The End Of The 19th Century. Throughout, Jaji Marshals A Wide Array Of Critical, Archival, Literary, Visual, And Sonic Sources To Craft An Argument Centered On The Stereophonic Echoes Between Three Sites On The African Continent Emblematic Of Pan-africanism (ghana, Senegal, And South Africa) And Black Musical Cultures In The Us (as Well As Few Other Placeson The Diasporic Landscape). Stereomodernism And Amplifying The Black Atlantic -- Sight Reading: Early Black South African Transcriptions Of Freedom -- Négritude Musicology: Poetry, Performance And Statecraft In Senegal -- What Women Want: Selling Hi-fi In Consumer Magazines And Film -- 'soul To Soul': Echo-locating Histories Of Slavery And Freedom From Ghana -- Pirate's Choice: Hacking Into (post-)pan-african Futures -- Epilogue: Singing Songs. Tsitsi Ella Jaji. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.