Sound Carries

In this special issue, contributors examine how sound carries across geographies, histories, and disciplines and how it bears meanings, struggles, and creative ways of being and knowing. Arguing that sound and space cannot easily be parsed either politically or poetically, the authors study the two together in order to make sense of the worlds that people create. Topics covered include British Asian dance music as a reflection on the politics of genre and multiculture; Caribbean radio and Black technologies as the sound of Britain’s dying colonialism; Black music as folk music in England; and sonic third worldism in the Eastern Mediterranean. 

Contributors: Les Back, Stevie Back, Tao Leigh Goffe, Tariq Jazeel, Sara Salem, Tom Western