Jayna Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596781 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jayna Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jayna |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Kevin Quashie. Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being . Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2021. 248 pp
Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds
Interregnum
This eclectic set of essays includes work about Zoom, the murder by police of Rayshard Brooks, blackness and public space, and black joy and uchromatism
Sociality at the End of the World
This collectively written essay meditates on sociality, mediation, death, and life during Pandemic 2020
A World on Fire
This essay considers the film Born in Flames in the context of the radical black feminism of the 1970s and 1980s, with an eye to the current invigoration of black feminist political action. It focuses on the way the film envisions the formation of a counterpublic and commons by and for working-class black women and women of color through music, sonic connection, and the hijacking of media communication. The film’s political commitment in both its…
Agency and Self-Volition in Black Feminist Performance Art
Being Cellular
Taking suggestion from the case of Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa cells, this essay is profoundly interested in the possibilities for new, and alternative, forms of life and being. What forms of sociality and the communal are available for us if we estrange ourselves from the life of our species? And how might these practices of estrangement-queering-actually allow for a new ethical landscape? The essay explores the politics of science in relation …
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein
Reviewed by: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein Jayna Brown (bio) Bernstein, Robin. Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. New York: New York UP, 2011. Through an amazing curation of materials carefully and painstakingly gleaned from a number of archives, including collections at the American Antiquarian Society and the Harvard Theatre Collection, …
Punk and Its Afterlives
Punk and Its Afterlives: Introduction” presents the special issue and stages an intervention in the study of punk. Setting aside codified origin myths around punk, alternative histories and futures emerge to offer an expanded continuum of music, politics, and affect. Race and nation, gender and sexuality, all begin to resonate in ways that writing on punk has had difficulty accounting for. The articles in this special issue range from the 1970s t…
Tricky and the Bug: Dub, Punk, and the Abject
In considering the music of two dub-influenced artists based in the United Kingdom, Tricky (Adrian Thaws) and the Bug (Kevin Martin), I explore the ways dub and punk share historical space and affective territory, and particularly the ways a punk ethos has continued to be imbricated into dub and its descendants. I argue that their shared territory is heavily masculinized, and I am interested in the uses of violence in the artists’ works, as a med…
Brown Girl in the Ring: Poly Styrene, Annabella Lwin, and the Politics of Anger
Buzz and Rumble
Research Article| March 01 2010 Buzz and Rumble: Global Pop Music and Utopian Impulse Jayna Brown Jayna Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 125-146. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-063 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jayna Brown; Buzz and Rumble: Global Pop Music and Utopian Impulse. Social Text 1 March 2010; 28 (1 (102)): 125-146. doi: ht…
Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern
his book is a cultural history of African American performance in the first half of the twentieth century.It charts an early genealogy of black female performance, with my central subjects women of the variety stage: the lesser-known performers Belle Davis, Stella Wiley, Ida Forsyne, and Valaida Snow; the better-known artists Ada Overton Walker, Josephine Baker, and Florence Mills; and two generations of black chorus line dancers, many of whom re…
Recall and response: Black women performers & the mapping of memory
Dat Var Negressen Walaida Snow
This essay is about the jazz musician and black variety stage artist Valaida Snow and the years she spent caught in Nazi occcupied Denmark. Despite rumors that she was held in a concentration camp, this essay argues that she may in fact have been shielded from the occupiers by the Danes. This essay argues that a masculinist bias in popular cultural/jazz studies obscures the histories of black women expressive artists and limits theoretical possib…
Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern
his book is a cultural history of African American performance in the first half of the twentieth century.It charts an early genealogy of black female performance, with my central subjects women of the variety stage: the lesser-known performers Belle Davis, Stella Wiley, Ida Forsyne, and Valaida Snow; the better-known artists Ada Overton Walker, Josephine Baker, and Florence Mills; and two generations of black chorus line dancers, many of whom re…
Being Cellular
Taking suggestion from the case of Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa cells, this essay is profoundly interested in the possibilities for new, and alternative, forms of life and being. What forms of sociality and the communal are available for us if we estrange ourselves from the life of our species? And how might these practices of estrangement-queering-actually allow for a new ethical landscape? The essay explores the politics of science in relation …
Buzz and Rumble
Research Article| March 01 2010 Buzz and Rumble: Global Pop Music and Utopian Impulse Jayna Brown Jayna Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 125-146. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-063 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jayna Brown; Buzz and Rumble: Global Pop Music and Utopian Impulse. Social Text 1 March 2010; 28 (1 (102)): 125-146. doi: ht…
Brown Girl in the Ring: Poly Styrene, Annabella Lwin, and the Politics of Anger
Recall and response: Black women performers & the mapping of memory
Dat Var Negressen Walaida Snow
This essay is about the jazz musician and black variety stage artist Valaida Snow and the years she spent caught in Nazi occcupied Denmark. Despite rumors that she was held in a concentration camp, this essay argues that she may in fact have been shielded from the occupiers by the Danes. This essay argues that a masculinist bias in popular cultural/jazz studies obscures the histories of black women expressive artists and limits theoretical possib…
Recall and response: Black women performers & the mapping of memory
Dat Var Negressen Walaida Snow
This essay is about the jazz musician and black variety stage artist Valaida Snow and the years she spent caught in Nazi occcupied Denmark. Despite rumors that she was held in a concentration camp, this essay argues that she may in fact have been shielded from the occupiers by the Danes. This essay argues that a masculinist bias in popular cultural/jazz studies obscures the histories of black women expressive artists and limits theoretical possib…
Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern
his book is a cultural history of African American performance in the first half of the twentieth century.It charts an early genealogy of black female performance, with my central subjects women of the variety stage: the lesser-known performers Belle Davis, Stella Wiley, Ida Forsyne, and Valaida Snow; the better-known artists Ada Overton Walker, Josephine Baker, and Florence Mills; and two generations of black chorus line dancers, many of whom re…
Buzz and Rumble
Research Article| March 01 2010 Buzz and Rumble: Global Pop Music and Utopian Impulse Jayna Brown Jayna Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 125-146. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-063 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jayna Brown; Buzz and Rumble: Global Pop Music and Utopian Impulse. Social Text 1 March 2010; 28 (1 (102)): 125-146. doi: ht…
Brown Girl in the Ring: Poly Styrene, Annabella Lwin, and the Politics of Anger
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein
Reviewed by: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein Jayna Brown (bio) Bernstein, Robin. Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. New York: New York UP, 2011. Through an amazing curation of materials carefully and painstakingly gleaned from a number of archives, including collections at the American Antiquarian Society and the Harvard Theatre Collection, …
Punk and Its Afterlives
Punk and Its Afterlives: Introduction” presents the special issue and stages an intervention in the study of punk. Setting aside codified origin myths around punk, alternative histories and futures emerge to offer an expanded continuum of music, politics, and affect. Race and nation, gender and sexuality, all begin to resonate in ways that writing on punk has had difficulty accounting for. The articles in this special issue range from the 1970s t…
Tricky and the Bug: Dub, Punk, and the Abject
In considering the music of two dub-influenced artists based in the United Kingdom, Tricky (Adrian Thaws) and the Bug (Kevin Martin), I explore the ways dub and punk share historical space and affective territory, and particularly the ways a punk ethos has continued to be imbricated into dub and its descendants. I argue that their shared territory is heavily masculinized, and I am interested in the uses of violence in the artists’ works, as a med…
Being Cellular
Taking suggestion from the case of Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa cells, this essay is profoundly interested in the possibilities for new, and alternative, forms of life and being. What forms of sociality and the communal are available for us if we estrange ourselves from the life of our species? And how might these practices of estrangement-queering-actually allow for a new ethical landscape? The essay explores the politics of science in relation …
Agency and Self-Volition in Black Feminist Performance Art
A World on Fire
This essay considers the film Born in Flames in the context of the radical black feminism of the 1970s and 1980s, with an eye to the current invigoration of black feminist political action. It focuses on the way the film envisions the formation of a counterpublic and commons by and for working-class black women and women of color through music, sonic connection, and the hijacking of media communication. The film’s political commitment in both its…
Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds
Interregnum
This eclectic set of essays includes work about Zoom, the murder by police of Rayshard Brooks, blackness and public space, and black joy and uchromatism
Sociality at the End of the World
This collectively written essay meditates on sociality, mediation, death, and life during Pandemic 2020
Kevin Quashie. Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being . Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2021. 248 pp
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