Musical Influence
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Decolonize Drag by
Although imagined as a queer subcultural practice, drag seems to be everywhere we look: from AI filters on TikTok to brunchtime entertainment, from state legislations to political rallies. Yet as drag enters the mainstream--largely due to the intense, global popularity of reality TV competition RuPaul's Drag Race--some kinds of gender-based performance fall out of the purview of what we (could) call drag. Decolonize Drag details the ways that gender is used as a form of colonial governance to eliminate various types of expression, and tracks how contemporary drag, including that on Drag Race, both replicates and disrupts these institutional hierarchies. This book focuses on several gender performers that resist and laugh at colonial projects through their aesthetic practices. It also features the voice of Khubchandani's drag alter ego, judgmental South Asian aunty LaWhore Vagistan. From the firsthand perspective of a drag artist, LaWhore describes encounters with depoliticized versions of drag that leave her disappointed and perplexed, and prompts Khubchandani for context and analysis. Their dynamic sets the tone for the book, investigating how drag--and gender more broadly--has been privatized and delimited so that it's only available to certain people. Decolonize Drag argues for more abundance in and access to fashioning gender, and considers how drag changes meaning and efficacy as it shifts across geographies.
Call Number: Tisch: PN1969.D73 K48 2023
The female voice in the twentieth century : material, symbolic and aesthetic dimensions by
"By integrating theoretical approaches to the female voice with the musicological investigation of female singers' practices, the contributors to this volume offer fresh viewpoints on the material, symbolic and cultural aspects of the female voice in the twentieth century. Various styles and genres are covered, including Western art music, experimental composition, popular music, urban folk and jazz. The volume offers a substantial and innovative appraisal of the role of the female voice from the perspective of twentieth-century performance practices, the centrality of female singers' experimentations and extended vocal techniques along with the process of the 'subjectivisation' of the voice" -- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: Music Library: ML82 .F46 2021
In the Break by
Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politics In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with radical political traditions of the African diaspora. In the Break is an extended riff on "The Burton Greene Affair," exploring the tangled relationship between black avant-garde in music and literature in the 1950s and 1960s, the emergence of a distinct form of black cultural nationalism, and the complex engagement with and disavowal of homoeroticism that bridges the two. Fred Moten focuses in particular on the brilliant improvisatory jazz of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, and others, arguing that all black performance--culture, politics, sexuality, identity, and blackness itself--is improvisation. For Moten, improvisation provides a unique epistemological standpoint from which to investigate the provocative connections between black aesthetics and Western philosophy. He engages in a strenuous critical analysis of Western philosophy (Heidegger, Kant, Husserl, Wittgenstein, and Derrida) through the prism of radical black thought and culture. As the critical, lyrical, and disruptive performance of the human, Moten's concept of blackness also brings such figures as Frederick Douglass and Karl Marx, Cecil Taylor and Samuel R. Delany, Billie Holiday and William Shakespeare into conversation with each other. Stylistically brilliant and challenging, much like the music he writes about, Moten's wide-ranging discussion embraces a variety of disciplines--semiotics, deconstruction, genre theory, social history, and psychoanalysis--to understand the politicized sexuality, particularly homoeroticism, underpinning black radicalism. In the Break is the inaugural volume in Moten's ambitious intellectual project-to establish an aesthetic genealogy of the black radical tradition
Call Number: Tisch and ebook: E185 .M895 2003
Tomashi Jackson by
The fully illustrated publication documents the exhibition of the same name, the first to focus on Tomashi Jackson's video collages. Among the topics explored in the works are the informal domestic-labor economics of Black women, histories and contemporary implications of US school-desegregation litigation and legislation, voting rights, and the intertwined living histories of Black, Indigenous Shinnecock, and Latin American people on the East End of Long Island, New York.
Call Number: SMFA: N6537.J3143 A4 2022
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Color Theory and Materiality
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Interaction of Color by
A luxurious two-volume edition with the complete original plates, text, and commentary "Absolutely stunning."--Felix Salmon, Reuters Josef Albers's masterwork, Interaction of Color, is one of the most influential books on color ever published. Originally issued in 1963 as a limited-edition set of commentary and 150 silkscreened color plates, the book introduced generations of students, artists, designers, and collectors to Albers's unique approach to complex principles. This beautiful edition brings Interaction back into classrooms and studios and onto bookshelves, where it will find an eager new audience. It replicates Albers's revolutionary exercises, explaining concepts such as color relativity and vibrating and vanishing boundaries through the use of color, shape, die-cut forms, and movable flaps that illustrate his astonishing demonstrations of the changing and relative nature of color. Also included for the first time are studies from the Albers archive, produced by the artist's students in the early 1960s. This celebration of Albers's legendary achievements is an essential addition to any serious art library. Published in association with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
Call Number: SMFA and Tisch: ND1489 .A4 2009Intersecting Colors by
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The People Behind the Paintings
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Brown V. Board of Education by
The 1954 US Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education legally ended state-mandated racial segregation in primary and secondary education and opened the way for the dismantling of the segregation of all public facilities. This book allows primary documents to speak for themselves and also offers a general introduction and extensive commentary of each primary source. Emphasis is not only on the decision itself but on the internal working of the High Court and on the nature of constitutional interpretation. For this fiftieth anniversary edition, Whitman (Towson University) includes a new preface.
Call Number: Tisch: KF4155 .B758 2004
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Thurgood Marshall: Brown v Board
Trayvon, Michael, and Dajerria: Racialized Violence against Black Youth
- Tomashi Jackson’s words – audio response to her research in AtlanticSelf Portrait - Tale of Two Michaels
Crystal Mason: Voting Rights Reform
Place-Based Practices
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White Flight by
The forgotten story of how southern white supremacy and resistance to desegregation helped give birth to the modern conservative movement During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate." In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains the causes and consequences of "white flight" in Atlanta and elsewhere. Seeking to understand segregationists on their own terms, White Flight moves past simple stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance. In the end, Kruse finds that segregationist resistance, which failed to stop the civil rights movement, nevertheless managed to preserve the world of segregation and even perfect it in subtler and stronger forms. Challenging the conventional wisdom that white flight meant nothing more than a literal movement of whites to the suburbs, this book argues that it represented a more important transformation in the political ideology of those involved. In a provocative revision of postwar American history, Kruse demonstrates that traditional elements of modern conservatism, such as hostility to the federal government and faith in free enterprise, underwent important transformations during the postwar struggle over segregation. Likewise, white resistance gave birth to several new conservative causes, like the tax revolt, tuition vouchers, and privatization of public services. Tracing the journey of southern conservatives from white supremacy to white suburbia, Kruse locates the origins of modern American politics.
Call Number: Tisch and ebook: F294.A89 A233 2005
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Georgia
- Tomashi Jackson’s words – audio responseInterstate Love Song
Brooklyn, NY
- PoliticsNY: TPT Horror Stories Aired At Packed Borough HallAbout Third Party Transfer
- PoliticsNY: Court Rules Against City, Millions of Dollars Of Wealth RestoredAbout Third Party Transfer
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Boston Busing Crisis & White Flight
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Streets of Hope by
Remembering -- Creating the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative -- Don't dump on us: organizing the neighborhood -- Planning an urban village -- Controlling the land through eminent domain -- Land and housing development: the triangle and beyond -- Holistic development: human, economic, environmental -- The power of youth -- Pathfinders.
Call Number: Tisch: HT177.B6 M44 1994
- Book Chapter: “Boston before ‘The Busing Crisis’: Black Education Activism and Official Resistance in the Cradle of Liberty” from Matthew Delmont’s Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and National Resistance to School Desegregation Why Busing Failed, 2016, Vol.42, p.77 Summary Six months before New York’s white mothers staged a high-profile demonstration against school desegregation, more than six thousand black and white protestors marched through Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood to protest against school segregation. The Boston march concluded at Sherwin School, built in 1870, five years after the end of the Civil War.¹ Pointing to the dilapidated ninety-three-year-old building, Thomas Atkins, executive secretary of the Boston branch of the NAACP, told the crowd, “This is where Negro kids go to school in Boston! What are you going to do about it!”² After observing a moment of silence for the four young girls
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