Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. INTRODUCTION African Art History and the Medium Concept 1
5. ONE Film as Light, Film as Indigenous 31
6. TWO Electronic Sound as Trance and Resonance 61
7. THREE The Song as Private Property 93
8. FOUR Artificial Blackness, or Extraction as Abstraction 119
9. FIVE “The Earth and the Substratum Are Not Enough” 153
10. SIX The Seed and the Field 183
11. AFTERWORD 211
12. NOTES 215
13. BIBLIOGRAPHY 237
14. INDEX 257