TY - CHAP
T1 - Rhythms of Relation: Black Popular Music and Mobile Technologies
AU - Weheliye, Alexander G.
A2 - Gopinath, Sumanth
A2 - Stanyek, Jason
N1 - Type: Reference Work
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - This chapter examines the relation between African-American popular music, particularly rhythm and blues (R&B), and mobile technologies. It reviews musical recordings released between 1999 and 2010 and highlights the extensive and intensive interdependence of contemporary black popular music and mobile technologies. It suggests that contemporary black popular music not only presents sonic redactions of techno-ecologies, but also, more important, their transposition into the realms of sensation via rhythm. Overall, the chapter aims to show both how contemporary R&B reworks mobile media and how this impacts current definitions of communication technologies.
AB - This chapter examines the relation between African-American popular music, particularly rhythm and blues (R&B), and mobile technologies. It reviews musical recordings released between 1999 and 2010 and highlights the extensive and intensive interdependence of contemporary black popular music and mobile technologies. It suggests that contemporary black popular music not only presents sonic redactions of techno-ecologies, but also, more important, their transposition into the realms of sensation via rhythm. Overall, the chapter aims to show both how contemporary R&B reworks mobile media and how this impacts current definitions of communication technologies.
U2 - DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199913657.013.014
DO - DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199913657.013.014
M3 - Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
VL - 2
BT - The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies
PB - Oxford University Press
ER -