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  • 5 - Witnessing Race in the New Digital Cinema

  • Edited by Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge, Monique M. Ingalls, Baylor University, Texas, David Trippett, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture
    Published online:
    30 August 2019
    Print publication:
    19 September 2019, pp 124-146

  • Summary

    One of the most important recent developments in practices of recording and listening to digital audio has been the documentation of police violence against marginalised communities, especially African Americans. Prior to the digital, audio-visual technologies served to document similar forms of racist violence as in the killing of Emmett Till (photography) or the beating of Rodney King (home video). But the increasing ubiquity of handheld recording devices has intensified and expanded those dynamics of documentary, creating new modes of witnessing race, bodies and power. In turn, these new forms of witnessing, which have played a central role in the Black Lives Matter movement, call for equally new forms of reception – ways of listening, viewing, sharing, and, in turn, recording, that amplify and disseminate that multimedia witnessing. Key examples of such witnessing, including Beyoncé’s Lemonade and recordings of police killing Philando Castile, offer sober reminders of the stakes of digital cinema.