The Black Atlantic by Paul Gilroy

In this book Paul Gilroy stages an intervention in debates over modernism to contend that the Africanist experience is an important one that's often left out or not accounted for. He picks up Du Bois's notion of a double consciousness and claims that music is a particularly good place to see the Africanist and Europeanist influences. But rather than centering on one type of experience, Gilroy seeks to decenter culture and work against nationalist readings of culture born in a vacuum. I found this book really helpful as an introduction to ways to think transnationally.