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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 4–24.
Published: 01 April 2023
...James Tobias Abstract While Black Studies and Queer Studies have offered a range of terms and methods for considering sound, music, and musicality in audiovisual work over the last half century, studies of sound and music in audiovisual media that have attempted to define these latter disciplines...
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in Corpsing the Frame: The Fugitivity of Bad Faith in Ligia Lewis's deader than dead
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Published: 01 October 2024
FIGURE 2. Instead of becoming animated by the music, as we might expect, the dancers who seem like collapsed puppets in the background fall farther to the ground. deader than dead (Ligia Lewis, 2021). Frame grab.
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 28–43.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Jasmine A. Moore Abstract This annotated playlist follows Missy Elliott's musical cinema. Paying particular attention to the use of speculative tropes, it argues that Elliott's work draws on Black feminist aesthetics to paint paths through memory, nostalgia, sexual autonomy, and spiritual rebellion...
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Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 2. The musical score of Jessie Cox's “Breathing,” written for Derrell Acon, which was commissioned by Sally Kurnick and Long Beach Opera. © Jessie Cox, September 2020. Courtesy of the artist.
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 46–59.
Published: 01 April 2023
... and performs a series of close readings that highlight the influential role of musical remixing practices in the film's synchronization of sound and image. Remixing practices such as sampling provide a music‐based conceptual vocabulary, which helps to illuminate how the montage of Looking for Langston...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 98–117.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Figure 2. The musical score of Jessie Cox's “Breathing,” written for Derrell Acon, which was commissioned by Sally Kurnick and Long Beach Opera. © Jessie Cox, September 2020. Courtesy of the artist. ...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 110–124.
Published: 01 April 2023
...stef torralba Abstract In this interview essay, stef torralba talks with scholar-critic Alexander Ghedi Weheliye about the author's scholarly work, writing practice, and musical inclinations, as well as the current state and future directions of Critical Black Studies. Taking inspiration from...
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Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 1. Victoria Spivey's “Black Snake Blues” (1926). Okeh Records. Courtesy of Venerable Music, www.vmauctions.com .
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 168–203.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Michele Prettyman Abstract In this interview essay Michele Prettyman talks with filmmaker, moving image artist, curator, and producer Elissa Blount Moorhead about her work, the power of collaboration, and her innovative praxis. Taking some inspiration from black musical traditions, which...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 75–88.
Published: 01 April 2021
... practitioners of African origin, liquidity is addressed here as a curatorial category, denoting a shared versatility of practice, and in aesthetic, geographic, and temporal terms. Aesthetic strategies such as the use of water as a thematic device and of music to weave a tapestry of auditory affinities across...
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Published: 01 October 2021
10.1215/26923874-9272772_v5i2_lbk9272772_audio2 Audio 2. Audio clip of Blind Lemon Jefferson’s moan in “Black Snake Moan” (1926). YouTube. Posted by Universal Music Group, August 20, 2020. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYZUnhChSUE . 6281123645001 myAudio2
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 62–75.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Roach, Cities of the Dead . 14 I integrate black queer performances of punk music and visual media into historian Clyde Woods theorizations of a blues epistemology, where black culture serves as a mediation of racialized and economic oppression. See Woods, Development Drowned . 15 My...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 86–95.
Published: 01 April 2022
... (Live at the Village Vanguard, New York 1961)” on loop beside us. Sensual music, prolonged deep, carries up and out our little red convertible, carries up and out into the night air. Snaking among the streets of your birth, I forget how to breathe, make the j a canoe and we sail off in it in laughter...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 21–37.
Published: 01 October 2021
... sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” 2 Moran's composition mirrors Kennedy's rippling waves musically: the sweeping charge emerges from the intersection of their individual sonic currents. When Moran plays piano alongside his trio mates, Taurus Mateen (bass) and Nasheet Waits...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 49–56.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Figure 1. Victoria Spivey's “Black Snake Blues” (1926). Okeh Records. Courtesy of Venerable Music, www.vmauctions.com . ...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 4–25.
Published: 01 October 2023
... with her ongoing interest in the therapeutic possibilities of music she has more directly explored through her Songwrights Apothecary Lab. 4 “free medicine” moves through a variety of moods and musical themes that range from querying (“when it's in mind, why can't I make it go?”), to urging (“many...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 28–45.
Published: 01 October 2023
.... In Symphony , the sounds of the outside world are re-created as musical notes from instruments of the orchestra: a single, tight, reverberating drum accompanies the dropping of a sack full of sand and a body to the sidewalk, and the weight of dancers coming down on their taps is replaced by piano chords...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 5–25.
Published: 01 April 2021
... in 1970 at age seventeen. See Tobias, “Three Lines for Passing Through .” 8 On Tapscott's reticence to record, see Widener, Black Arts West , 137–38 . See also Barbara McCullough, Horace Tapscott: Musical Griot (2017). 9 Morrison, “Abrupt Stops.” 10 For an account...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 91–95.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Imagination. These are songs. Song was a form of survival for enslaved Africans across the Americas, and I often think about an interview in which Arthur Jafa makes the claim that African American music is Western music—which is wholeheartedly the truth. He also explains that our first “go...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 156–171.
Published: 01 October 2024
... and composer, would play—as a musical instrument—eighteen prison bars Gaspar collected from the Cook County Jail in Chicago, Illinois ( figs. 1–3 ). FIGURE 1. Prison bar collected by Maria Gaspar from Cook County Jail in Chicago, Illinois. Photo from Tumbling (2023), twenty-three archival prints, 20...
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