![]() ![]() Dumas depicted black music as a tool that enabled black people to kill their enemies, and Delany represented music as a technology capable of avenging the wrongs committed against the politically and socially marginalized. Both writers treat music itself, without regard to a material instrument, as a technology. Delany’s novel The Einstein Intersection. ![]() Each author visited this theme in more than one work, and in at least one work centered the Afro-technological focus upon a special musical instrument: the “afro horn” in Dumas’s story “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” and a machete/flute in Samuel R. This essay explores the thematic use of music in the science-fiction writings of two African American authors, Henry Dumas and Samuel R. ![]()
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