• The "Robot Voodoo Power" thesis: Afrofuturism and anti-anti-essentialism from Sun Ra to Kool Keith 

  Rollefson, J. Griffith (Center for Black Music Research - Columbia College Chicago and University of Illinois Press, 2008-03)

  In the 1990s the term Afrofuturism emerged to describe a vein of science fiction inspired artistic production that repositions black subjects in a purportedly race free future that is nonetheless coded as white. While ...
• “He’s calling his flock now”: black music and postcoloniality from Buddy Bolden’s New Orleans to Sefyu’s Paris 

  Rollefson, J. Griffith (University of Illinois Press, 2015-11)

  This article constitutes a close reading and sonic analysis of the Senegalese-Parisian rapper, Sefyu’s “En noir et blanc.” It performs an intertextual and musical analysis as a way to bring into form the historical and ...
• Tom Zé's Fabrication Defect and the “Esthetics of Plagiarism”: a postmodern/postcolonial “Cannibalist Manifesto” 

  Rollefson, J. Griffith (Taylor & Francis Group, 2007-06-26)

  On his 1998 album Fabrication Defect the Brazilian composer-performer Tom Zé articulates the discourses of postmodernity and postcoloniality. More than simply touching on various aspects of ‘‘post-ness,’’ Zé forges from ...
• Sounding the Bromance: The Chopstick Brothers' 'Little Apple' music video, genre, gender and the search for meaning in Chinese popular music 

  Stock, Jonathan P. J. (Equinox, 2016-01)

  This article analyses the music video of ‘Little Apple’ by Wang Taili and Xiao Yang, also known as the Chopstick Brothers, one of China’s most successful productions in 2014, and one that exemplifies certain emerging trends ...
• Warriors and musicians: notes from the Colonna family archive 

  Marshall, Melanie L. (Oxford University Press, 2011-05)

  The Colonna family was one of the most important in sixteenth-century Rome yet its music patronage activities at that time have largely escaped the attention of musicologists. Marc'Antonio II Colonna, perhaps best known ...

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