Afroscifunkstication: The significance of science fiction in black music?

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Afroscifunkstication: The significance of science fiction in black music

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 03:15 (twenty-three years ago)

aaaaaaaaargh Everything2!!! bad memories, bad memories *shudders*

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 03:20 (twenty-three years ago)

mark s and crack legal team to thread

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 03:32 (twenty-three years ago)

See Kodwo Eshun's excellant book "more brilliant than the sun" for more on afrofuturism in music

― geeg, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 03:45 (twenty-three years ago)

god i hate 'afrofuturism'

― s trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 03:52 (twenty-three years ago)

so blame mark s

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 03:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Also see the documentary Last Angel of History.

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 05:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, a paper on the science fiction aspect of black music with absolutely ZERO mention of Jimi Hendrix? You should be ashamed of yourself.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, John "Wow" "The Corbs" Corbett has written extensively, exhaustingly, mind-meltingly on this subject.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, a paper on the science fiction aspect of black music with absolutely ZERO mention of Jimi Hendrix? You should be ashamed of yourself.
Hmmmm. Yeah, but Jimi Hendrix wasn't a Heinlein SciFi kinda guy. He's more of a Lewis Caroll Fantasy kinda guy.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know, he's one of the most absurdly futurist performers of the past century..."Land of the New Rising Sun", "1983 (A Merman I Shall Be)", etc. his lyrics were quite obsessed with a future he was very optimistic about.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 21:49 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

*poof*

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

are you The Great Saprendo? have you come for my soul?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 5 June 2003 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

YES! I CLAIM YOUR SOUL! GIVE IT TO ME NOW! ITS MINE NOW! GIVE-IT-TO-MEEEEE!!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 5 June 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

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