Moor Mother - Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes
The new LP by Philadelphia poet and experimental musician Camae Ayewa is even more relentless and dark than “Fetish Bones” from 2016.
Label: Don Giovanni / LPDG190
Artist: Moor Mother
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Activism, Black Culture, Dark Ambient, Electronic, Poetry, Vinyl.
Renée Levine Packer and Mary Jane Leach (editors) - Gay Guerrilla – Julius Eastman and his Music
Composer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, clas..(read more)
Publisher: University of Rochester Press / ISBN: 9781580465342
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Black Culture, Composers, Gay Activism, USA.
Schokkend Nieuws - # 135 (Dec18/Jan19) – We Love London
Special about London with early film history featuring the spooky grimy city it was for a long time. Brian Desmond Hurst’s “Scrooge” (1951), S..(read more)
Publisher: Schokkend Nieuws / 135 dec18/jan19
Author: Schokkend Nieuws
Medium: Magazine
Categories: Books & Magazines, Films.
Tags: Black Culture, Cult, Early Cinema, Film History, Horror, Magazines.
Schokkend Nieuws - # 130 (February/March 2018)
In Dutch. Black Power special. Interviews: Guillermo del Toro, Tony Todd, Khavn de la Cruz. Marquee: Wall of Shame – racist film posters. Hollywood Blvd: Awar..(read more)
Publisher: Schokkend Nieuws / # 130
Author: Schokkend Nieuws
Medium: Magazines
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Black Culture, Cult, Magazines.
Moor Mother - Fetish Bones
“… forget all your academic noise pieces, this is a truly, really “brutal” record to mutter “brutal” to. Brilliant, affecting, and exhausting.&#..(read more)
Label: Don Giovanni / LPDG121
Artist: Moor Mother
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Afrofuturism, Black Culture, Hip-Hop & Rap, Noise, Poetry, Vinyl.
Art Ensemble of Chicago - A.A.C.M., Great Black Music – A Jackson In Your House
The Art Ensemble of Chicago is one of the most enduring units dedicated to free improvisation and modern jazz composition. A Jackson in Your House was recorded ..(read more)
Label: BYG Actuel / 529.302
Artist: Art Ensemble of Chicago
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: '60s, Black Culture, Free Improvisation, Free Jazz, USA, Vinyl.
André M. Carrington - Speculative Blackness – The Future Of Race In Science Fiction
Carrington analyzes the highly racialized genre of speculative fiction—including science fiction, fantasy, and utopian works, along with their fan cultures ..(read more)
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press / ISBN: 9780816678969
Author: André M. Carrington
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Black Culture, Culture Theory, Science Fiction.
John Akomfrah - The Stuart Hall Project
Award-winning documentarian John Akomfrah made a sensitive, emotionally charged portrait of Jamaica-born cultural theorist Stuart Hall. A founding figure of con..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / BFIVD998
Artist: John Akomfrah
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Activism, Black Culture, Documentary, UK.
Petrine Archer-Straw - Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s
Black culture was very much in vogue in avant-garde Paris in the 1920s as white artists celebrated it as a means of escaping bourgeois values. At the same time,..(read more)
Publisher: Thames and Hudson / ISBN: 978-0500281352
Author: Petrine Archer-Straw
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Afrofuturism, Black Culture.
