Presented By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
DAAS Diasporic Dialogues: “Micro(phone) Aggressions: Nina Simone's Sound and Technologies of Black Rage"
Edwin Hill, University of Southern California, Associate Professor of French and Italian and American Studies and Ethnicity
Edwin Hill's research seeks to highlight the marginalized intellectual and cultural traffic between France and the Americas. He has published and/or presented on contemporary Caribbean writers, Sub-Saharan francophone literature, African American popular music, French chanson, and francophone hip hop. Similarly, his teaching interests, while focused on black vernacular culture and France, extend from the poetry of Negritude writers to postcolonial explorations of contemporary francophone writers and musicians.
His first book Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Sound in the Francophone Black Atlantic (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013) considers the torn aesthetic and ideological relationships between Antillean music and literature from the 1920s to 1960s to be a colonial struggle over the meaning of Caribbean vernacular culture. Informed by an interdisciplinary formation (Bachelor Degree in Music Performance, PhD in French and Francophone Studies), Black Soundscapes White Stages relocates the marginalized voices of the black diaspora through the discursive matrix of French imperialism and the cultural history of the French West Indies. The book has enjoyed positive reviews in French Studies: A Quarterly Review 68.3 (summer 2014), Comparative Literature Studies 52.3 (2015), and Contemporary French Civilization (Spring 2015).
Professor Hill's current book project, Black Static, locates rage as an sonic/affective vibration routed through the circuits of African diasporic musical culture, travel, and communication. It focuses on a range of musicians and writers, from Nina Simone and militant rap artist Casey to Frantz Fanon and Ta-Nehisi Coates. Professor Hill is also at the beginning stages a third book project: a critical biography of Léon Gontran-Damas.
Education
Ph.D. French and Francophone Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007
B.A. Music Performance (Percussion), University of Iowa
M.A. French Literature, University of Iowa
Description of Research
Summary Statement of Research Interests
Research interests include: Francophone poetry and music. Representations of post/colonial desire and romance. Exchanges in Caribbean and black Atlantic identity formations and cultural discourses. Cultural studies, performance studies and musical discourses on gender and race. Technology and post/colonial discourse.
Conferences and Other Presentations
Conference Presentations
""Black Noise in a Moment of Silence"", Lecture/Seminar, Freie Universität, Berlin Germany, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Stud, Invited, Spring 2016
""Freedom of Silence"", Lecture/Seminar, Muhlenberg College. Allentown, PA., French and Francophone Studies Program, Invited, Fall 2015
""On Not Being and Not Following Charlie"", Questioning Aesthetics Symposium, Talk/Oral Presentation, California Institute of the Arts, Program in Aesthetics and Politics, Invited, Fall 2015
""Cipha vs State: Symbolic Violence and the Performative Power of the Rap Lyric in France and the US."", Theme Colloquium, Lecture/Seminar, University of Oregon, Department of Music and Dance, Department of Roman, Invited, Spring 2015
""Sounding Affect"", Thinking in Sonic Terms, Talk/Oral Presentation, Abstract, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Mellon Sawyer Seminar "Race Across Time and Space", Invited, Spring 2014
""Black Women, Affect, and the Cité"", The Transatlantic, Africa and its Diaspora, Talk/Oral Presentation, Abstract, Oxford University, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Invited, Fall 2013
""Bêtes noires: Black Women Beast on the MIC"", New Directions in Caribbean Sound, Talk/Oral Presentation, Abstract, Rutgers University, The Critical Caribbean Studies Initiative at Rutge, Invited, Spring 2013
""DJ Cut Killer in the Cité"", Music Moves; Exploring Musical Meaning through Difference, Framing and Transformation, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Georg August University Göttingen, Musicology Department in cooperation with the Cent, Invited, Spring 2013
""Falling Down: Representing Rage in Popular Culture"", Lecture/Seminar, Abstract, Emory University, Department of French and Italian, Invited, Spring 2013
""Falling Down: Representing Rage in Popular Culture"", Lecture/Seminar, Abstract, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Foreign Languages and Literatures Section, Invited, Spring 2013
""Falling Down: Representing Rage in Popular Culture"", Lecture/Seminar, Abstract, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of French, Invited, Spring 2013
""Sharpen me THIS" (Critical Karaoke)", Locals Only: Pop & Politics in this Town -- Annual EMP Pop Music Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, REDCAT Theatre, Experience Music Project, Invited, Spring 2013
Publications
Book
Hill, E. C. (2013). Black Soundscapes, White Stages: The Meaning of Sound in the Black Francophone Atlantic. Callaloo African Diaspora Studies Series. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Hill, E. C. Black Static (in progress).
Book Chapter
Hill, E. C. (2010). Monnaies Mythiques: Métissage and A Woman's Worth in Suzanne Dracius's Sa Destinée Rue Monte au Ciel. Paris: Harmattan.
Book Review
Hill, E. C. (2016). Book Review. Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print: Aesthetic Subjectivity, Diaspora, and the Lyric Regime (New York: Columbia UP, 2015) by Carrie Noland. French Studies.
Hill, E. C. (2016). Book Review. Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities, and Pop Music, 1958-1980 (New York: Oxford UP, 2015) by Jonathyne Briggs. Journal of Social History.
Essay
Hill, E. C. (2016). "Uncanny Correspondences". LA, CA. LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
Hill, E. C. (2012). Afterwards: Climbing Down from the Sky. pp. 25 pages. Virginia. Virginia University Press.
Journal Article
Hill, E. C. (2013). "Making Claims on Echoes: Dranem, Cole Porter, and the biguine between the Antilles, France and the US". Popular Music.
Hill, E. C. Ratés rythmiques: Léon-Gontran Damas's Black Label and the Negritude Beat. Negritud: Revista de Estudios Afro-Latinoamericanos. 28 December 2012
Hill, E. C. (2007). "‘Adieu madras, adieu foulard’: Antillean Musical Origins and the Doudou’s Colonial Plaint. Ethnomusicology Forum / Routledge. Vol. 16 (1), pp. 19-43.
Hill, E. C. (2004). 'Aux armes et caetera: Re-covering Nation for Cultural Critique. Copyright Volume! Musiques actuelles et problématiques plastiques / Éditions Mélanie Séteun. Vol. 2 (2)
Hill, E. C. (2002). Imagining Métissage: The Politics and Practice of Métissage in the French Colonial Exposition and Ousmane Socé’s Mirages de Paris. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture / Routeledge. Vol. 8 (4)
Other
Hill, E. C. (2006). "Letter following" by Daniel Maximin ("Lettre suit"). Exchanges: A Journal of Literary Translations.
Service to the Profession
Conferences Organized
Organizer / Panelist, "Paris, Beirut, Ankara: A Roundtable Discussion.", USC, Fall 2015
Project Banlieue: French Peri/Urban Cultures and Crises, Project Banlieue encourages research on marginalized French urban cultural production and life. It includes a year long lecture social science series and a one day humanities colloquium March 6., 2008-2009
His first book Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Sound in the Francophone Black Atlantic (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013) considers the torn aesthetic and ideological relationships between Antillean music and literature from the 1920s to 1960s to be a colonial struggle over the meaning of Caribbean vernacular culture. Informed by an interdisciplinary formation (Bachelor Degree in Music Performance, PhD in French and Francophone Studies), Black Soundscapes White Stages relocates the marginalized voices of the black diaspora through the discursive matrix of French imperialism and the cultural history of the French West Indies. The book has enjoyed positive reviews in French Studies: A Quarterly Review 68.3 (summer 2014), Comparative Literature Studies 52.3 (2015), and Contemporary French Civilization (Spring 2015).
Professor Hill's current book project, Black Static, locates rage as an sonic/affective vibration routed through the circuits of African diasporic musical culture, travel, and communication. It focuses on a range of musicians and writers, from Nina Simone and militant rap artist Casey to Frantz Fanon and Ta-Nehisi Coates. Professor Hill is also at the beginning stages a third book project: a critical biography of Léon Gontran-Damas.
Education
Ph.D. French and Francophone Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007
B.A. Music Performance (Percussion), University of Iowa
M.A. French Literature, University of Iowa
Description of Research
Summary Statement of Research Interests
Research interests include: Francophone poetry and music. Representations of post/colonial desire and romance. Exchanges in Caribbean and black Atlantic identity formations and cultural discourses. Cultural studies, performance studies and musical discourses on gender and race. Technology and post/colonial discourse.
Conferences and Other Presentations
Conference Presentations
""Black Noise in a Moment of Silence"", Lecture/Seminar, Freie Universität, Berlin Germany, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Stud, Invited, Spring 2016
""Freedom of Silence"", Lecture/Seminar, Muhlenberg College. Allentown, PA., French and Francophone Studies Program, Invited, Fall 2015
""On Not Being and Not Following Charlie"", Questioning Aesthetics Symposium, Talk/Oral Presentation, California Institute of the Arts, Program in Aesthetics and Politics, Invited, Fall 2015
""Cipha vs State: Symbolic Violence and the Performative Power of the Rap Lyric in France and the US."", Theme Colloquium, Lecture/Seminar, University of Oregon, Department of Music and Dance, Department of Roman, Invited, Spring 2015
""Sounding Affect"", Thinking in Sonic Terms, Talk/Oral Presentation, Abstract, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Mellon Sawyer Seminar "Race Across Time and Space", Invited, Spring 2014
""Black Women, Affect, and the Cité"", The Transatlantic, Africa and its Diaspora, Talk/Oral Presentation, Abstract, Oxford University, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Invited, Fall 2013
""Bêtes noires: Black Women Beast on the MIC"", New Directions in Caribbean Sound, Talk/Oral Presentation, Abstract, Rutgers University, The Critical Caribbean Studies Initiative at Rutge, Invited, Spring 2013
""DJ Cut Killer in the Cité"", Music Moves; Exploring Musical Meaning through Difference, Framing and Transformation, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Georg August University Göttingen, Musicology Department in cooperation with the Cent, Invited, Spring 2013
""Falling Down: Representing Rage in Popular Culture"", Lecture/Seminar, Abstract, Emory University, Department of French and Italian, Invited, Spring 2013
""Falling Down: Representing Rage in Popular Culture"", Lecture/Seminar, Abstract, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Foreign Languages and Literatures Section, Invited, Spring 2013
""Falling Down: Representing Rage in Popular Culture"", Lecture/Seminar, Abstract, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of French, Invited, Spring 2013
""Sharpen me THIS" (Critical Karaoke)", Locals Only: Pop & Politics in this Town -- Annual EMP Pop Music Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, REDCAT Theatre, Experience Music Project, Invited, Spring 2013
Publications
Book
Hill, E. C. (2013). Black Soundscapes, White Stages: The Meaning of Sound in the Black Francophone Atlantic. Callaloo African Diaspora Studies Series. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Hill, E. C. Black Static (in progress).
Book Chapter
Hill, E. C. (2010). Monnaies Mythiques: Métissage and A Woman's Worth in Suzanne Dracius's Sa Destinée Rue Monte au Ciel. Paris: Harmattan.
Book Review
Hill, E. C. (2016). Book Review. Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print: Aesthetic Subjectivity, Diaspora, and the Lyric Regime (New York: Columbia UP, 2015) by Carrie Noland. French Studies.
Hill, E. C. (2016). Book Review. Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities, and Pop Music, 1958-1980 (New York: Oxford UP, 2015) by Jonathyne Briggs. Journal of Social History.
Essay
Hill, E. C. (2016). "Uncanny Correspondences". LA, CA. LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
Hill, E. C. (2012). Afterwards: Climbing Down from the Sky. pp. 25 pages. Virginia. Virginia University Press.
Journal Article
Hill, E. C. (2013). "Making Claims on Echoes: Dranem, Cole Porter, and the biguine between the Antilles, France and the US". Popular Music.
Hill, E. C. Ratés rythmiques: Léon-Gontran Damas's Black Label and the Negritude Beat. Negritud: Revista de Estudios Afro-Latinoamericanos. 28 December 2012
Hill, E. C. (2007). "‘Adieu madras, adieu foulard’: Antillean Musical Origins and the Doudou’s Colonial Plaint. Ethnomusicology Forum / Routledge. Vol. 16 (1), pp. 19-43.
Hill, E. C. (2004). 'Aux armes et caetera: Re-covering Nation for Cultural Critique. Copyright Volume! Musiques actuelles et problématiques plastiques / Éditions Mélanie Séteun. Vol. 2 (2)
Hill, E. C. (2002). Imagining Métissage: The Politics and Practice of Métissage in the French Colonial Exposition and Ousmane Socé’s Mirages de Paris. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture / Routeledge. Vol. 8 (4)
Other
Hill, E. C. (2006). "Letter following" by Daniel Maximin ("Lettre suit"). Exchanges: A Journal of Literary Translations.
Service to the Profession
Conferences Organized
Organizer / Panelist, "Paris, Beirut, Ankara: A Roundtable Discussion.", USC, Fall 2015
Project Banlieue: French Peri/Urban Cultures and Crises, Project Banlieue encourages research on marginalized French urban cultural production and life. It includes a year long lecture social science series and a one day humanities colloquium March 6., 2008-2009
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