Shop > Monographs

Out of Stock
#15007

Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski

Writer
Dhanveer Singh Brar
Date
2021
Publisher
Goldsmiths Press
Format
Monographs
ISBN
9781912685790
Size
15.9 × 23.5 × 1.4 cm
Length
192 pp
Genre
Music, Sound Art, Black Art & Artists, Theory
Description

Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski argues that Black electronic dance music produces sonic ecologies of Blackness that expose and reorder the contemporary racialization of the urban—ecologies that can never simply be reduced to their geographical and racial context. Dhanveer Singh Brar makes the case for Black electronic dance music as the cutting-edge aesthetic project of the diaspora, which due to the music’s class character makes it possible to reorganize life within the contemporary city.

Closely analysing the Footwork scene in South and West Chicago, the Grime scene in East London, and the output of the South London producer Actress, Brar pays attention to the way each of these critically acclaimed musical projects experiment with aesthetic form through an experimentation of the social. Through explicitly theoretical means, Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski foregrounds the sonic specificity of 12” records, EPs, albums, radio broadcasts, and recorded performances to make the case that Footwork, Grime, and Actress dissolve racialized spatial constraints that are thought to surround Black social life.

Pushing the critical debates concerning the phonic materiality of blackness, undercommons, and aesthetic sociality in new directions, Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski rethinks these concepts through concrete examples of contemporary black electronic dance music production that allows for a theorization of the way Footwork, Grime, and Actress have—through their experiments in blackness—generated genuine alternatives to the functioning of the city under financialized racial capitalism.

  1. Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski
 

Related Items

  1. Dara Birnbaum and T.J. Demos: Dara Birnbaum: Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman
  2. Craig Burnett and Philip Guston: Philip Guston: The Studio
  3. Sonja Ivekovic and Ruth Noack: Sanja Ivekovic: Triangle
  4. Walker Evans and Oliver Richon: Walker Evans: Kitchen Corner
  5. Fito Conesa: Suite for ordinary Machinery
  6. Robert Dayton: NEW HORIZZZONS SPECTRUM (on the)
  7. Protocol Warum: Care Not Care no. 6
  8. Sara Kay Maston, Veronique Sunatori, XVK, and Xuan Ye: XVK Band Poster
  9. Mieke Bal: Exhibition-ism: Temporal Togetherness
  10. Susan Schuppli: Material Witness: Media, Forensics, Evidence
  11. Boris Groys: Logic of the Collection
  12. Stefanie Hessler: Prospecting Ocean
  13.  Larissa Hjorth, Sarah Pink, Kristen Sharp, and Linda Williams: Screen Ecologies
  14. Bas Jan Ader and Jan Verwoert: Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous
  15. Kodwo Eshun and Dan Graham: Dan Graham: Rock My Religion
  16. Sarah Lucas and Amna Malik: Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel
  17. Sharon Lockhart and Howard Singerman: Sharon Lockhart: Pine Flat
  18. Mark Leckey and Mitch Speed: Mark Leckey: Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore
  19. Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Tom Holert: Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Celebration? Realife
  20. Michael Archer and Jeff Koons: Jeff Koons: One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank
  21. Pierre Huyghe and Mark Lewis: Pierre Huyghe: Untitled (Human Mask)
  22. Peter Fischli, Jeremy Millar, and David Weiss: Fischli and Weiss: The Way Things Go
  23. Stefan Gronert and Sigmar Polke: Sigmar Polke: Girlfriends
  24.  Luis Camnitzer: One Number is Worth One Word
  25. Benjamin H. Bratton: Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution
  26. Helen Chadwick and Marina Warner: Helen Chadwick: The Oval Court
  27. Elizabeth A. Povinelli: Routes/Worlds
  28. Beatrice von Bismarck: The Curatorial Condition
  29. Richard Birkett: Donald Rodney: Autoicon
  30. The White Pube: Poor Artists: A Quest into the Art World
  31. Anna Dezeuze and Thomas Hirschhorn: Thomas Hirschhorn: Deleuze Monument
  32. Chris Kraus and Eileen Myles: I Love Dick
  33. Nina Valerie Kolowratnik: The Language of Secret Proof
  34. Suzanne Hudson and Agnes Martin: Agnes Martin: Night Sea
  35. Martha Rosler: Culture Class
  36. Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx: Communist Manifesto
  37. Maria Lind and Cecilia Widenheim: Migration
  38. Maria Lind: Seven Years
  39. Brad Haylock and Megan Patty: Art Writing in Crisis
  40. Cathy Park Hong: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning