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currentmusicology-5347	Weheliye, Alexander G.	Rhythms of Relation: Black Popular Music and Mobile Technologies	2017	22	.pdf	application/pdf	9887	581	58	While early mobile ringtones consisted of a particular sequence of tones and did not differ significantly from the functional sounds of a ringing landline, mobile phone ringtones are now largely MP3 clips (usually around 15 seconds in duration) of existing musical recordings. After a brief examination of those aspects of mobile technologies that gesture beyond disembodied communication, I turn to the multifarious manifestations of techno-informational gadgets (especially cellular/mobile telephones) in contemporary R&B, a genre that is acutely concerned, both in content and form, with the conjuring of interiority, emotion, and affect.	cache/currentmusicology-5347.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-5347.txt