John Sobol

Digitopia Blues

Race, Technology, and the American Voice

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Produktbeschreibung

"Digitopia Blues is a sawy analysis of music, poetry, and the digital scene that may frame the future of cultural politics in America. It is a story of orality and literacy--their individual histories and their individual histories and their individual histories and their blended futures. Musician and poet John Sobol tells this tale interwined with stories about the blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll, the African-American struggle to find a language of revolutionary power, and the oral poet's impulse to transcend the printed page. Then Sobol reaches out to new media, rap, raves, and Napster to discuss the advantages that digital communication offers people of colour, as well as its potential dangers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Banff Centre Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 155mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780920159897
• ISBN-10: 0920159893
• Artikelnr.: 21907214

Autorenporträt

John Sobol has published hundreds of articles and was co-writer of The Genius of Lenny Breau, which won the 1999 Gemini Award for best Canadian TV arts documentary. As a saxophonist and oral poet he has given over 1,000 performances in 11 countries since 1979. His CD label, Word of Mouth, has released eight CDs including Blue History by his own John Sobol Poetry Band. In 1997, his poet-trio, AWOL Love Vibe, released a book/CD titled The Ecstatic Almanac. He was the co-founder of Globalhood, a digital playground in Toronto for at-risk youth. He is about to release his fifth book You Are Your Media.