scenarios of whiteness

black. queer. indie. awkward. this blog is in some part about "the allurements that lurk in the crevices of sonic beginnings [/belongings?], those sonorous marks that launch new worlds, holding out pleasures to come while also tendering futurity as such...

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onuinu

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'excuse' - big freedia

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notes from the field, vol.3

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notes from the field, vol. 3 mixtape

black subjectivity appears as the antithesis to enlightenment subject by virtue of not only have a body but by being a body. but what happens once the black voice becomes disembodied, severed from its source, (re)contextualized, and (re)embodied as appropriated, or even before this point? – alexander g. weheliye, phonographies: grooves in sonic afro-modernity

1. point of no return - exposé 2. we don't have to take our clothes off - jermaine stewart 3. peanut butter - rupaul feat. big freedia 4. last night (a dj saved my life) - intodeep 5. freak like me - santigold 6. a night to remember - shalamar 7. some things never seem to fucking work - solange 8. two occasions - the deele 9. girls like you - miguel 10. 100 days, 100 nights - sharon jones & the dap-kings

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  performing talking heads' 'this must be the place' and talking about meeting david byrne and meeting stevie wonder

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notes from the field, vol.2

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ice palace - onuinu

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big freedia

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speaking about the nile project

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real love - meklit hadero and quinn deveaux

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notes from the field, vol. 2 mixtape

to refuse to be conscious of what we are feeling at any time, however comfortable that might seem, is to deny a large part of the experience         – aurde lorde, 'the uses of anger'

1. always waiting - michael kiwanuka 2. bring it on home to me - meklit hadero & quinn deveaux 3. only for you - heartless bastards 4. trouble - over the rhine 5. slow - meklit hadero, quinn deveaux 6. the dark end of the street - james carr 7. members only - bobby 'blue' bland 8. life on mars? -seu jorge 9. love on a two way street - stacy lattisaw 10. silly - deniece williams 11. maybe - the chantels 12. helpless - neil young 13. hold on magnolia - songs:ohia

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