Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9798765106464

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by Kameryn Alexa Carter (Author)

Conceived and first composed on her laptop at home, with some vocals recorded in her bathroom, Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two is lo-fi and highly sophisticated-exquisitely analog and experimentally techy.

Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two is lofi and highly sophisticated-exquisitely analog and experimentally techy. It begins with a radio signal tuning in, and it asks its listener to participate in their own process of attunement, to listen to familiar sounds anew, and open ourselves to an alternate Amerykah. An organism at once cohesive and discordant, it flows, jams, grooves, bounces. It transforms.

Placing Badu in an intertextual constellation of artists and critics from Stevie Wonder, to Amiri Baraka, to Alice Coltrane, Kameryn Alexa Carter explores whether neo-soul is dead, acknowledges Baduizm as a potent form of Black female spirituality, and tunes into Badu's "freakquencies", taking the reader through a series of synesthetic dream sequences as she revisits the album again and again.

Author Biography

Kameryn Alexa Carter is a founding co-editor of Emergent Literary, a journal for black and brown artists. Her work has appeared in Bennington Review, Phoebe Journal, Torch Literary Arts, The Best American Poetry 2023, and elsewhere. You can find her online at kamerynalexacarter.com.

Number of Pages: 128

Dimensions: 0.4 x 6.5 x 4.7 IN

Publication Date: September 04, 2025

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