Feeling the Fantasy: Soundscaping Black Queerness

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Abstract: Contemporary spaces dedicated to nightlife have always been intrinsically tied to Black, queer, gender-expansive conceptualizations of embodied liberation. Electronic dance music, in particular, and the accompanying cultures and communities are also tethered to Black liberation. Rooted in a simultaneous process of addressing the material conditions of intersectional disenfranchisement and escape from contemporary social politics in the pursuit of a "scrutable and safe" future (Tracy K. Smith, Sci-Fi), electronic dance music--and more broadly, nightlife--are potent sites of inquiry into the role identity plays in art creation. This writer's memo accompanies a produced soundscape that features live mixing and a conversation-based interview with Berlin-based musician Shaw Cain Hawkins on the potential nightlife spaces offer in promoting self-embodiment, uninhibited self-expression, and "the fantasy"--the idealized versions of the self. This soundscape is still in progress, although a version for this course has been attached here. I plan on continuing to interview artists, expand the sound scape, and eventually hold a public listening event towards the end of the school year.

Type of resource	text
Publication date	December 14, 2023; December 12, 2023

Author	Myrthil, Taiyo

DOI	https://doi.org/10.25740/cr201pg0094
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/cr201pg0094

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Preferred citation: Myrthil, T. (2023). Feeling the Fantasy: Soundscaping Black Queerness. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/cr201pg0094. https://doi.org/10.25740/cr201pg0094.

Stanford University, Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Senior Papers

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