On Black Speculative Musicalities
Publication information:
Vijay Iyer. 2023. “On Black Speculative Musicalities”. In Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings, edited by Michael Kelly and Monique Roelofs. New York: Bloomsbury
Abstract
"let us listen to black performance as a ritual space for Black speculative musicalities: sonically disruptive practices that posit new ways of becoming musical, new genres of being human, otherwise possibilities for black life and black subjectivities, and radical futurities for the 'philosophy of the human being.' With and through black speculative musicalities, we are bearing witness to an insurgent sonic world-building: moments of black performance becoming musical, fugitive black sonic operations affording intercorporeal movement, pleasure, release, ascension."