Brian D’Aquino is a Senior Research Assistant to the ERC-funded Sonic Street Technologies project at Goldsmiths, University of London. He holds a PhD in International Studies from University of Naples L’Orientale, where he is associated with the Centre for Postcolonial and Gender Studies and the Technology Research Unit. He is the author of Black Noise. Tecnologie della Diaspora Sonora (Meltemi, 2021) and has written on popular culture and music, technology and politics in English and Italian. As a founding member of the research group Sound System Outernational he has co-authored articles and co-organized research events in the UK, Italy, and online since 2016. As a member of the Critical Computation Bureau he has curated the online infrastructure for the symposium Recursive Colonialism, Speculative Computation and Artificial Intelligence (December 2020). He has been running the Bababoom Hi Fi sound system and released vinyl records under the Bababoom Hi Fi imprint since 2004.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS
—. Black Noise. Tecnologie della diaspora sonora. Milan: Meltemi, 2021.

ARTICLES, ENTRIES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

—, with Parvan, Oana. “Amplifying Street Knowledge through Practice-as-Research: Sound System Outernational #5 in Naples, Italy”. Journal of World Popular Music 8 (1), 2021 (forthcoming).

—. with Henriques, Julian and Vidigal, Leonardo. “A Popular Culture Research Methodology: Sound System Outernational”. Volume! 13 (2), 2017, pp. 163-175, available from http://volume.revues.org/5249

—. “Black Noise. Sulle tracce di una politica del suono nella musica popolare giamaicana”. Musica/Realtà, XL 120, 2019.

—. “Rewinding the Tape of History: King Tubby and the Audiopolitics of Echo”, Riffs. A Popular Music Studies Journal, 2 (2), 2018.

—. “Riavvolgendo il nastro della storia. Appunti per una politica dell’eco”, Ritorni Critici. La sfida degli studi culturali e postcoloniali, Eds. Iain Chambers, Lidia Curti, Michaela Quadraro. Milano: Meltemi, 2018.

—. “Calypso in the UK”’ Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Vol. XI Eds. John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing. London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017, pp. 102-105.

—. “Dancehall in Europe”, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Vol. XI Eds. John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing. London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017, pp.186-190.

—. “Reggae in Europe”, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Vol. XI Eds. John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing. London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017, pp. 628-42.

—. “Ska in Europe”, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Vol. XI Eds. John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing. London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017, pp. 717-21.