More Brilliant Than the Sun
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"AfroFuturism comes from Mark Dery's '93 book, but the trajectory starts with Mark Sinker. In 1992, Sinker starts writing on "Black Science Fiction"; that's because he's just been to the States and Greg Tate's been writing a lot about the interface between science fiction and Black Music. Tate wrote this review called "Yo Hermeneutics", which was a review of David Toop's Rap Attack plus a Houston Baker book, and it was one of the first pieces to lay out this science fiction of black technological music right there. And so anyway Mark went over, spoke to Greg, came back, started writing on Black Science Fiction. He wrote a big piece in The Wire, a really early piece on Black Science Fiction in which he posed this question, asks 'What does it mean to be human?' In other words, Mark made the correlation between Blade Runner and slavery, between the idea of alien abduction and the real events of slavery."--More Brilliant Than the Sun (1998) by Kodwo Eshun, p. 175 |
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More Brilliant than the Sun. Adventures in Sonic Fiction (1998) is a book by Kodwo Eshun first published by Quartet Books.
It is a study of the black science fictions of artists such as Sun Ra and 4 Hero. Reliant on neologism and re-appropriated jargon the book is an exploration of “Sonic Fictions” - Eshun's term for the intersection of black music and science fiction; Eshun describes himself not as the book's author, but as its "concept-engineer".
Specific consideration is made of the following musicians:
George Russell, Teo Macero, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Grandmaster Flash, The Knights of the Turntable, Mantronix, Ultramagnetic MCs, Rammellzee, Dr. Octagon, Cypress Hill, The RZA, Gravediggaz, Sunz Of Man, Funkadelic, Tricky, The Upsetter, 4 Hero, Rob Playford, Goldie, A Guy Called Gerald, Cybotron, Zapp, Drexciya, Kraftwerk, Jungle Brothers, Phuture, Bam Bam, Sleazy D, Model 500, The Electrifying Mojo, The Bomb Squad, Underground Resistance, Scientist, X-102, Parliament, Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.
