Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century by Dhanveer Singh Brar

Author:Dhanveer Singh Brar [Brar, Dhanveer Singh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: music, Genres & Styles, Electronic, Ethnomusicology, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, American, African American & Black Studies
ISBN: 9781912685790
Google: bHsmEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2021-04-27T23:23:09.262971+00:00

It is important for us to both stay with and disturb these associations between descriptions of the album’s sonic content as inescapably turgid, the ascription of these sounds to a mood of bleakness, and then the proposition that these elements cohere as a sonic rendering of place. The idea that Ghettoville is a place Actress walks through is worth retaining, but I want to argue that there might be more to the soundscape of the album than the ‘exhausted present’ of a ‘broken and disadvantaged world’.24 With Ghettoville Actress is conducting urban phono-material study. He achieves this by not only drawing upon the abstract tendencies already latent within an array of black urban musical experiments, and the assumption that spatially constrained urban life is racialized and poverty stricken, but also by using a method of what I am calling quotidian observation to mediate his experience of the social arrangements across the streets of South London into sonic ecologies. This leaves us with the unstable yet highly productive proposition that the album is emanating from a place called Ghettoville imagined by Actress, and/or Ghettoville is the realization of an atmosphere already grounded in South London as Actress walks through it.

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