Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity #booktok ”—Brynne Rebele-Henry

”—Brynne Rebele-Henry

No one is prepared for this whiteout

the Dhammapada etc

The work of these women helped achieve the unequivocal right to vote

Billie Holiday

Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity #booktok ”—Brynne Rebele-HenryPhonographies 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