Riding on dissonance, playing off-beat

A jazz album on joy

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ID12009986
AuthorsAmir Asim Gilmore (0000-0002-8455-4486, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume51
Issue1
Pages118-134
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCurriculum Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0362-6784 • E-ISSN: 1467-873X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03626784.2020.1838231
OpenAlexW3167515405
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited41

Inspired by jazz’s epistemologies and structures, this article was written as a Black liberatory jazz album on Black Boy Joy. Threaded through musical tracks, Black Boy Joy is conceptualized as a Black spiritual Life Force and a liberatory emotional expression that refuses the anti-Black curriculum antagonizing Black boys. Black Boy Joy centers Black joy through desire-based refusal and reclaims Black subjectivities and futures through Black aesthetics. Black Boy Joy is the quotidian refusal to stay in one's designated "place" and provides a space that gives Black boys futures that they want now through Black liberatory fantasy. Through fantasies and desires, I demonstrate how vital improvisation and dissonance is to creating Black liberated futures. Through the good mess of jazz improvisation, I invite the audience to (re)imagine, (re)explore, and linger with these concepts within a musical Black Study

Acoustics · Aesthetics · Art · Beat (acoustics · Cognitive dissonance · Jazz · Sociology · Visual arts · Communication · Critical Race Theory in Education · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Social Psychology

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