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On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland
By Alex Werth
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By Alex Werth
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How struggles over Black sound have shaped Oakland’s culture, politics, and geography.
Chicago has house. Detroit has techno. But Oakland slaps.
On Loop explores the role of Black dance music and sonic politics in recurring struggles over race and space in Oakland, California. Insisting on the centrality of sound in everyday social movements—from the mobilization of funk music and boogaloo dance during Black Power to the policing of the Hyphy movement in the 2000s—Alex Werth argues that Bl...
Chicago has house. Detroit has techno. But Oakland slaps.
On Loop explores the role of Black dance music and sonic politics in recurring struggles over race and space in Oakland, California. Insisting on the centrality of sound in everyday social movements—from the mobilization of funk music and boogaloo dance during Black Power to the policing of the Hyphy movement in the 2000s—Alex Werth argues that Bl...
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