Black Utopias - Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds Federico Campagna Documentation

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as well as a visual essay by Scott Rogers on the invitation of Richard Frater

Black Utopias - Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds Federico Campagna DocumentationIn Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of creative worldmaking. Brown explores the lives and work of Black women mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, and the work of speculative fiction writers