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ERIC Number: EJ1298895
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0362-6784
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Riding on Dissonance, Playing Off-Beat: A Jazz Album on Joy
Gilmore, Amir
Curriculum Inquiry, v51 n1 p118-134 2021
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.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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