@article{Chude-Sokei_2017, title={Prognosticating Echoes: Race, Sound, and Naturalizing Technology}, url={https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5345}, DOI={10.7916/cm.v0i99/100.5345}, abstractNote={<p><span style="left: 90px; top: 229.435px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.98467);">In his near-classic </span><span style="left: 224.457px; top: 231.229px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.97279);">The Recording Angel</span><span style="left: 378.968px; top: 229.435px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.981611);"> (2005), Evan Eisenberg points out </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 251.105px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01573);">that the actual legacy of automata in the twentieth century was machines </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 272.775px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02233);">like the phonograph or gramophone. Since so many automata were used </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 294.445px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.962523);">as music boxes and existed for entertainment purposes and for refined </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 316.115px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.959697);">contemplation in a European context, it is no surprise that they would </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 337.785px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00334);">evolve as they did in America. This emphasizes something more interest-</span><span style="left: 90px; top: 359.455px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.942346);">ing than their pedigree: that in the years between Joice Heth, the black </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 381.125px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.974413);">slave woman that P.T. Barnum passed for an automata, and (Karel Capek’s) </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 404.078px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.914671);">R.U.R.</span><span style="left: 137.06px; top: 402.795px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.967863);"> (</span><span style="left: 147.4px; top: 404.078px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.915887);">Rossum’s Universal Robots</span><span style="left: 334.053px; top: 402.795px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00022);">), the play that would introduce the term </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 424.465px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.995214);">“robot” into the English language, ventriloquism and masquerade become </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 446.135px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.950098);">increasingly properties of technology. </span></p>}, number={99/100}, journal={Current Musicology}, author={Chude-Sokei, Louis}, year={2017}, month={Apr.} }