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More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction [SPECIAL EDITION] (Paperback)

by Kodwo Eshun (Author) "Respect due. Good music speaks for itself..." (more)
Key Phrases: rhythmic psychedelia, rhythm synthesizer, sleeve art, Sonic Fiction, Kool Keith, Alice Coltrane (more...)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Quartet Books (UK); 10th Anniversary edition edition (July 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0704380250
  • ISBN-13: 978-0704380257
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #309,614 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Respect due. Good music speaks for itself. Read the first page
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rhythmic psychedelia, rhythm synthesizer, sleeve art, dub plate, sonic weapon, cosmic music, mental machine, universal sound, possibility space, mixing desk, distributed brain
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Sonic Fiction, Kool Keith, Alice Coltrane, Star Child, Techno City, John Coltrane, Killah Priest, Underground Resistance, Sir Nose, Grandmaster Flash, Sir Menelik, Herbie Hancock, James Brown, Detroit Techno, George Russell, Jeff Mills, More Brilliant, Electronic Sonata, Mike Banks, Suburban Knight, Lee Perry, Public Enemy, Alien Music, Bam Bam, Juan Atkins
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Mind-bending Manifesto, October 19, 1999
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Less a critical survey than a manifesto for the neuron-altering powers of "breakbeat science," this ingenious book traces the development of sampladelia from the "jazz fission" era of '68-'75 (with excellent analyses of George Russell's and Herbie Hancock's sonic experiments), through the Parliament/Funkadelic groovescapes of the late '70s (including close scrutiny of Pedro Bell's subversive cover art), through Electro (early '80s synth oriented hip hop) and Detroit Techno, to the present Jungle milieu of time stretching and spatio-acoustics. Eschewing a traditional music-crit vocabulary in favor of a riffing, neologistic verbal poetics, Eshun perfectly captures the sci-fi convolutions of the music he describes, and makes an infectious case for the birth of a new audio-paradigm.
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