Afro-Futurism is a term recently used to refer to a specific – mostly urban and black – subculture that evolved around dance music, science fiction and diaspora and is strongly interwoven with other youth cultures such as hip hop and techno culture.
see articles on this website: Afro-futurism, African-American strategies to overcome racial and social classification by means of technology and futuristic mythology.
Theoretical Approach
Mark Dery : Black to the Future
Paul Gilroy: The Black Atlantic
Kodwo Eshun: More Brilliant than the Sun
Practical Approach
Jazz & Funk: Sun Ra and George Clinton
Hip Hop: From Afrika Bambaataa to the Electronic Black Market
Techno: Black Secret Technology
other links:
article Loving the alien, by Mark Sinker (The Wire, issue 96, february 1992)
website Black science fiction : an aesthetic concept in black music and African American science fiction
website www.afrofuturism.net
