Rhythms Made to Rupture and Bodies Made to Break/Dance: What Happens When a DJ and a Douen Walk Into a (Crowded) Void?

The DJ as digital griot re/de/sutures fragments of cultures whose totality has been elided by—and eludes—Western ontologies, perpetually connecting black rhetorical traditions with the technologies and possibilities of multimedia writing.  Digital griots’ use of “arranging, layering, sampling, and remixing are inventions . . . binding time as they move the crowd and create and maintain…

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