Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity Avenue B and for those who love

and for those who love to play dress-up

Liang’s by turns lyrically poetic and movingly raw investigation into the fate of her village became a bestselling book in China and brought her fame

she stays laced in designer clothes

the harrowing

and West Indian Immigration to Honduras

Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity Avenue B and for those who lovePhonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. Highlighting how black authors, filmmakers, and musicians have actively engaged with recorded sound in their work, Alexander G. Weheliye contends that the interplay between sound technologies and black music and speech enabled the emergence of modern black culture, of what he terms sonic