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Michael Abels: Song Lines and Slave Songs

Summary by thewire.co.uk
In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers Michael Abels’s musicalisations of Black aspiration in Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017) and Us (2020). An affluent American suburb at night: old trees, manicured gardens, maintained roads, restored street lamps. A Black man has just been thrown into a car. On cue with the trunk slam: Appalachian strings, ukulele finger-picking, and Swahili choral humming intoning “Sikiliza K…
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thewire.co.uk broke the news in on Monday, July 28, 2025.
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