Brighter Than the Sun: Adventures in Sound Fiction

Brighter than the sun . Adventures in sound fiction . A mythological object published in 1998 by a young critic, Brighter than the sun bets that, if the music press has nothing to say about Afrofuturism, it is because it does not know how to talk about it. To describe this science fiction music, guided by new sound machines, Kodwo Eshun invents himself as a concept engineer and embraces the synthetic even in words, like the experimenters whose myths and sounds he explores: Miles Davis, Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra, Dr. Octagon, UR, Funkadelic, Drexciya.... Eshun takes us on Afrofuturist adventures in sound fiction, replaying the plastic dynamism of a black identity in constant construction, which does not only inherit a history, but shapes it at the confines of music.

ISBN: 979-1094642627