Jake Blount, 'The Man Was Burning'

The theorist and filmmaker coined the term "chronopolitics" to describe Afrofuturism's multi-directional sense of time — its way of both exposing the long legacy, an Afrofuturist in roots-music garb, turns the early African-American songbook of blues, spirituals and field songs into a Dr. Who-like Tardis in recordings that engage with those old styles while warping, distilling and even exploding them.