Digitopia Blues: Race, Technology, and the American Voice

John Sobol

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Banff Centre Press
Country
Canada
Published
16 May 2002
Pages
192
ISBN
9780920159897

Digitopia Blues: Race, Technology, and the American Voice

John Sobol

A lyrical analysis of the intersections between poetic speech and music, intertwined with the history of black/white relations in America.Digitopia Blues is a fluid narrative about orality and literacy – their individual histories, and their blended futures. Musician and poet John Sobol pinpoints the African American struggle to find a language of revolutionary power through orality and music, as well as the literate poet’s impulse to transcend the printed page. Then he locates literacy and orality in the new digital media, in rap, in rave and even in Napster. Sobol’s book is intertwined with the stories of the blues, jazz and rock ‘n’ roll, the powerful world of the printed word and the potential dangers and advantages that digital communications technologies offer people of colour.

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