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The Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies is delighted to launch Dr Malcolm James' new book Sonic Intimacy (Bloomsbury 2020)

'Sonic intimacy' is a concept which opens up how sound, human and technological relations relate to racial capitalism. Through an analysis of alternative music cultures of the Black Atlantic (reggae sound systems, jungle pirate radio and grime YouTube music videos), Malcolm James critically shows how sonic intimacy relates to modernity's social, psychic, spatial and temporal movements. This book explores what the development of sonic intimacy means for human relations and alternative black and anti-capitalist public politics

“This is a relentlessly thoughtful and intelligent historical survey of how the role of music in black life has been transformed technologically, ethically and politically. Malcolm James' provocative and probing analysis sets a new standard for future work on sound, space and the politics of race." – Paul Gilroy, Professor of Humanities, University College London, UK

Dr Malcolm James is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex. He is Associate Director of the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies. He is author of "Urban Multiculture: Youth, Politics and Cultural Transformation in a Global City" (Palgrave 2015)

Alongside Dr James we have three magnificent speakers to discuss the book. We promise a thought provoking discussion and some music too.

Dr Richard Bramwell, Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies, University of Loughborough and author of "UK hip-hop, grime and the city: the aesthetics and ethics of London's rap scenes" (Routledge 2015)

Dr Monique Charles, Cultural Sociologist, Theorist and Sound Therapist. She invented/developed a research method to analyse and understand music for the social science and cultural studies fields (Musicological Discourse Analysis – MDA) and developed a theory on Black music and spirituality in live performance/clubbing spaces (AmunRave Theory). She is Media Reviews Editor for the Global Hip Hop Studies Journal and author of ‘Hallowed be thy Grime? : A musicological and sociological genealogy of Grime music and its relation to black Atlantic religious discourse.’ (#HBTG?)

Professor Jeremy Gilbert, Professor of Cultural and Political Theory, University of East London author of Twenty-First Century Socialism (Polity 2020)

More details about the book can be found here

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sonic-intimacy-9781501320736/

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