E-grāmata: Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices

Interspersing interstitial events of detailed listening with theoretical formulations derived from that listening, Jessie Cox teaches us about the specificities and varieties of Black life in Switzerland. He notes the fateful and fatal commonalities, particularly those that concern not just the problematic of identity but also the various forms of resistant survival that are given as refusals to identity. An extraordinary provocation and inspiration, Sounds of Black Switzerland prompts ecstatic responses and overwhelming questions. - Fred Moten, author of (Black and Blur) Jessie Cox crucially notes the importance of musical discourses, interdisciplinary modes of knowledge production, and storytelling for the communal ontologies of Black life in diaspora in Switzerland and beyond. He takes aspects habitually overlooked by mainstream knowledges and transforms them into Black diasporic critical instruments. Redrawing the critical maps of the relationship between contemporary Black Switzerland and sonic performance, this lucidly argued, theoretically sophisticated, and timely book will make an immediate contribution to Black diaspora studies, European studies, sound studies, and cultural studies. - Alexander Ghedi Weheliye, author of (Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology)