Open AccessSugar, Sound, Speed
Author(s) -
Jessica Swanston Baker
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
representations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.162
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1533-855X
pISSN - 0734-6018
DOI - 10.1525/rep.2021.154.3.23
Subject(s) - sound (geography) , sugar , acoustics , history , literature , art , biology , physics , biochemistry
This essay presents the song “Area Code 869,” an example of a Caribbean genre known as “wilders” or “pep,” as a form of what Kodwo Eshun calls “sonic fiction.” By focusing on sonic bodies as “bodies touched by sound,” the essay suggests that “869” offers a reimagination of the historical relationship between sugar, sound, and speed in the Eastern Caribbean island of St. Kitts, a former British sugar colony.
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