Black and Blur
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-7016-1 (ISBN)
"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination
In Black and Blur—the first volume in his sublime and compelling trilogy consent not to be a single being—Fred Moten engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life. In these interrelated essays, Moten attends to entanglement, the blurring of borders, and other practices that trouble notions of self-determination and sovereignty within political and aesthetic realms. Black and Blur is marked by unlikely juxtapositions: Althusser informs analyses of rappers Pras and Ol' Dirty Bastard; Shakespeare encounters Stokely Carmichael; thinkers like Kant, Adorno, and José Esteban Muñoz and artists and musicians including Thornton Dial and Cecil Taylor play off each other. Moten holds that blackness encompasses a range of social, aesthetic, and theoretical insurgencies that respond to a shared modernity founded upon the sociological catastrophe of the transatlantic slave trade and settler colonialism. In so doing, he unsettles normative ways of reading, hearing, and seeing, thereby reordering the senses to create new means of knowing.
Fred Moten is Professor of Performance Studies at New York University and the author of B Jenkins, also published by Duke University Press, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, and coauthor of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study.
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xv
1. Not In Between 1
2. Interpolation and Interpellation 28
3. Magic of Objects 34
4. Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia 40
5. Taste Dissonance Flavor Escape (Preface to a Solo by Miles Davis) 66
6. The New International of Rhythmic Feel/ings 86
7. The Phonographic Mise-en Scène 118
8. Line Notes for Lick Piece 134
9. Rough Americana 147
10. Nothing, Everything 152
11. Nowhere, Everywhere 158
12. Nobody, Everybody 168
13. Remind 170
14. Amuse-Bouche 174
15. Collective Head 184
16. Cornered, Taken, Made to Leave 198
17. Enjoy All Monsters 206
18. Some Extrasubtitles for Wildness 212
19. To Feel, to Feel More, to Feel More Than 215
20. Irruptions and Incoherences for Jimmie Durham 219
21. Black and Blue on White. In and And Space 226
22. Blue Vespers 230
23. The Blur and Breathe Books 245
24. Entanglement and Virtuosity 270
25. Bobby Lee's Hands 280
Notes 285
Works Cited 317
Index 329
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.02.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | consent not to be a single being |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 499 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8223-7016-6 / 0822370166 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-7016-1 / 9780822370161 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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