... Chapter 2, “‘He Blew His Brains Out through the Trumpet’: Buddy Bolden and the Impossible Sound of Madness,” illuminates the lifeworld and afterlifeworld of Charles “Buddy” Bolden. He was a turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleanian ragtime musician sometimes credited as “inventor” of jazz...

... offbeat. “Mad” black musicians are prime practitioners of madtime, adapting it as a radical time signature in protest music. In order to bear out and sound out this claim, this chapter samples the music of Buddy Bolden, Nina Simone, Charles Mingus, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar, and Frank Ocean, producing...