Digitopia Blues - Softcover
A lyrical analysis of the intersections between poetic speech and music, intertwined with the history of black/white relations in America.Digitopia Blues is a fluid narrative about orality and literacy -- their individual histories, and their blended futures. Musician and poet John Sobol pinpoints the African American struggle to find a language of revolutionary power through orality and music, as well as the literate poet's impulse to transcend the printed page. Then he locates literacy and orality in the new digital media, in rap, in rave and even in Napster. Sobol's book is intertwined with the stories of the blues, jazz and rock 'n' roll, the powerful world of the printed word and the potential dangers and advantages that digital communications technologies offer people of colour.
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John Sobol is a poet who has also been a professional jazz musician since the age of 15. His work as a spoken word poet and musician has taken him all over the world, and prompted him to write Digitopia Blues, a 12-year labour of love. His journey led him to libraries and living rooms around the world as he read widely and spoke to master poets and musicians, leaning as much from stories and anecdotes as he did from learned studies and critical theory.
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"I wrote this book to learn what I felt I needed to know to become a capable artist whose interest lay in the intersection of poetic speech and music."
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- PublisherBanff Centre Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0920159893
- ISBN 13 9780920159897
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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