SAN DIEGO — The worlds of DJs, academia, hip-hop, Miles Davis, Dua Lipa, electronic music, Sun Ra, cassette mix tapes and digital technology are all happy equals for King Britt, who in barely four years at the University of California San Diego has become one of its most popular faculty members. “King has a real following on campus, and he’s had so much impact on so many students,” said UCSD student Stephen Burt, a 21-year-old senior majoring in structural engineering. “His ‘Blacktronika: Afrofuturism in Electronic Music’ is probably my favorite class, ever.” ” ‘Blacktronika’ has been enormous…
