Audiofuturism by andr carrington - 9781531513320

AudiofuturismScience Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination\nAuthor(s): andr carrington\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9781531513320, 978-1531513320\nSynopsis\nA revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the present\n\nAudiofuturism uncovers the vibrant, overlooked history of radio adaptations that placed Black speculative writing before mass audiences, showing how sound shaped the politics and pleasures of twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture. While adaptation studies has long privileged film and sound studies has centered Black music, andr m. carrington redirects attention to radio drama to demonstrate how performance translates the Black fantastic imagination into an audible cultural heritage. Drawing on scripts, surviving recordings, production files, and author archives, the book reconstructs how radio made listeners hear literature differently and ho.