People-of-Color-Blindness: A Lecture by Jared Sexton

[omarricks]

(cont'd from "At 54:00") Sexton uses this as an analogy: the band was the figure of the black community, so the audience was...well...everybody else. He's trying to show that there is social life (the music) within the state of social death (the inaudibility of the music in the ears of the audience). He's showing that "afropessimism" isn't as simple as Fred Moten tries to make it seem in his article "The Case of Blackness." There is social life within social death. But it's still social death.

[omarricks]

At 54:00 in, we lose a part at the beginning of the Q&A. He's talking about a Sonny Rollins performance he saw down in SoCal recently. The sound went out in the middle of a song and somebody was trying to stop Rollins from playing until the sound got fixed, but the band refused to stop. To Rollins' band, the point of playing was not the audience, but the musical exchange the band had on stage. To the audience, the band on stage was playing but couldn't be heard.

[iknohiphop]

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[TRBtree]

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[lostbrother1979]

@TRBtree -- not quite . . .