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Sugar, Sound, Speed: "Area Code 869" and Sonic Fiction.
- Source :
- Representations; Spring2021, Vol. 154 Issue 1, p23-34, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- This essay presents the song "Area Code 869," an example of a Caribbean genre known as "wilders" or "pep," as a form of what Kodwo Eshun calls "sonic fiction." By focusing on sonic bodies as "bodies touched by sound," the essay suggests that "869" offers a reimagination of the historical relationship between sugar, sound, and speed in the Eastern Caribbean island of St. Kitts, a former British sugar colony. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CARIBBEAN music
MUSICOLOGY
HISTORIOGRAPHY of music
CUBAN music
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07346018
- Volume :
- 154
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Representations
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 150838942
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2021.154.3.23