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Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computer

Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computer

Hassler-Forest, Dan

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon

Black American StudiesGeneral SociologyPop/Rock

ISBN10: 3030906523
ISBN13: 9783030906528
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 12 2022
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book offers an in-depth analysis of Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computer, an Afrofuturist project that appeared simultaneously as a concept album and a visual album or emotion picture in spring 2018. In the previous decade, Janelle Monáe has developed into a global media personality who effortlessly unites speculative world-building with social and political activism. Across the intersecting album and film that together make up Dirty Computer, Monáe brings together the science-fictional themes that informed her previous work, resulting in a powerfully focused artistic and political statement. While the music on the album can be enjoyed as an accessible collection of pop tracks, the accompanying film, music videos, and media paratexts add layers of meaning that combine speculative world-building with anti-racist activism. This unique convergence of energies, ideas, and media platforms has made Dirty Computer a new classic of Afrofuturist science fiction.

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