# Black-Secret-Tricknology-on-Tricky-and-Dub **Opening (not a real abstract):** Paul Gilroyprefaceshis essay "Black MusicAnd The Politics Of AuthentIc1ty"with a quote from Kool G Rap: "My nationality is reality." Gilroy goes on to speak of a (black) culture ·anchored In a continuedproxImItyto the unspeakableterrors of the slaveexperience"In the 7Os/8Os , Bob Marley,say, could sing a song like "Slave Driver" - and all his songs of Redemption, Freedom, Liberation- and It couldstill resonatefor a generationnearenoughto their own (or their parents') experienceof displacementfor it to register a certain knottiness.A lot has happenedsince then (all too little of It picked up by the critical media) but 1f you wanted to sum up the seachange- betweenthe anchoredThenand the splinteredNow that quotationwouldhaveto read:TECHNOLOGYIS MY REALITY Forget the centre: the margins are where the signalsare coming **Authors:** [[Penman]]