A SONIC COMPENDIUM
Resources for the Book
This project showcases an extensive archive of materials from Soundin’ Canaan, including interviews, resources, remixes, and curated playlists featuring music referenced in the book.
This section features links to documents and sources, organized by chapter as they appear in the book, along with discussion questions.
Listen to live audio from book launches, remixed versions of the book, and even create your own remix.
“In Soundin’ Canaan: Black Canadian Poetry, Music, and Citizenship, Can-Lit-Crit scholar Paul db Watkins “brings da noise,” reading through Afro-Can poets to stress that our concern is to remix, adapt, sample, and echo African Diasporic literary and musical greats in confraternity or confrontation with the Bards of the Great White World—and of the Great White North…”
—George Elliott Clarke- George Elliott Clarke, author of Whiteout: How Canada Cancels Blackness (Véhicule Press) & J’Accuse…! (Poem Versus Silence) (Exile Editions)” Steiner
SOUNDIN' CANAAN REMIXED 