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Dark Banjee Aesthetic: Hearing a Queer-of-Color Archive within Club Music
Blair Black
Artists of color in electronic dance music—especially queer artists of color—have developed a musical epistemology that references the sonic archives of Black queer life to prioritize coming together in difference within DJ mixsets. How can these “Afro-philo-sonic fictions” help us work through the tensions of our lived material realities to relate to one another and even achieve unity? This is especially urgent given how decades of marketing by the mainstream music industry has decentered the racial/sexual minority liberatory politics of EDM culture while adopting almost all of its production styles.
e-flux Journal
Posted: December 13, 2022
Category
Music, Gender
Subjects
Queer Art & Theory, Transgender, Blackness