{"title":"Black Studies","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"black-case-volume-i-and-ii-return-from-exile","title":"BLACK CASE VOLUME I AND II: RETURN FROM EXILE by Joseph Jarman","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e165 x 205mm, 142 pages, Single colour printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e‘Joseph Jarman (1937 – 2019) was a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of trailblazing avant-garde jazz group Art Ensemble of Chicago. Jarman was responsible for the Art Ensemble’s signature face paint and elaborate costumes as well as the pioneering theatrical and multimedia elements of their shamanistic performances, which could include dance, comedy, performance art, surreal pranks, and—notably—the recitation of Jarman’s poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIn 1977, Art Ensemble of Chicago Publishing Co. published Jarman’s \u003cem\u003eBlack Case Volume I and II: Return From Exile\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of writing conceived across America and Europe between 1960 and 1975. Comprised largely of Jarman’s flowing, fiery free verse—influenced by Amus Mor, Henry Dumas, Thulani Davis, and Amiri Baraka—the book also features a manifesto for “GREAT BLACK MUSIC,” notated songs, concert program notes, Jarman’s photos, and impressions of a play by Muhal Richard Abrams, the founder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians of which Jarman was also an original member. Jarman writes poetry of personal revolutionary intent, aimed at routing his audience’s consciousness towards growth and communication. He speaks with compassionate urgency of the struggles of growing up on Chicago’s South Side, of racist police brutality and profound urban alienation, and of the responsibility he feels as a creative artist to nurture beauty and community through the heliocentric music that he considers the healing force of the universe. A practicing Buddhist and proponent of Aikido since a 1958 awakening saved him from the traumatic mental isolation of his time dropped by the US army into southeast Asia, Jarman sings praise for the self-awareness realization possible through the martial arts. With cosmic breath as its leitmotif, his poetry both encourages and embodies a complete relinquishing of ego. While some of the poems contained within \u003cem\u003eBlack Case \u003c\/em\u003ehave already been immortalized via performances on classic records by Jarman and Art Ensemble of Chicago, its republication in print form breathes new life into a forgotten document of the Black Arts Movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Joseph Jarman, a musician of rare poetic gifts, was also a remarkable poet. \u003cem\u003eBlack Case\u003c\/em\u003e, a lost treasure of the Black Arts Movement, combines protest against injustice with heart-breaking introspection and fierce commitment to the Great Black Music tradition to which Jarman contributed with gentle yet mighty force.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e—Adam Shatz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Joseph’s recitation of ‘Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City’ (from \u003cem\u003eBlack Case\u003c\/em\u003e) moved me to set the words of this poem for Baritone Voice and Orchestra and became part of the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s standard repertoire. Joseph had a bold and passionate creative spirit. I feel privileged to have shared the stage with him.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e—Roscoe Mitchell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“‘Though in reality all the words are music themselves’ is the reality to which all poetry aspires, whether in verse or prose, theory or story, criticism or craft. Joseph Jarman always knew that for black musicians, which is to say black speakers, exile is our public holiday. We live through that. We live through that. Black Case is all and everything in this regard. ‘Whats to say,’ he says, is that ‘we sing because\/we love you\/because we\/love you\/because\/we love\/you.’ We are loved beyond judgment by the music, he says, and we say thanks.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e—Fred Moten’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003ePublished by\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blank Forms","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41886137516262,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/5338\/0582\/products\/01_D_9c32cc49-8fd8-4bc3-bfdb-be6001305790.jpg?v=1634664714"},{"product_id":"all-incomplete-by-stefano-harney-and-fred-moten","title":"ALL INCOMPLETE by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten","description":"\u003cp\u003e150 x 225mm, 178 pages, Colour printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding on the ideas Harney and Moten developed in The Undercommons, All Incomplete extends the critical investigation of logistics, individuation and sovereignty. It reflects their chances to travel, listen and deepen their commitment to and claim upon partiality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll Incomplete studies the history of a preference for the force and ground and underground of social existence. Engaging a vibrant constellation of thought that includes the work of Amilcar Cabral, Erica Edwards, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Cedric Robinson, Walter Rodney, Hortense Spillers and many others, Harney and Moten seek to share and understand that preference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn so doing, Moten and Harney hope to have forged what Manolo Callahan, echoing Ivan Illich, calls a convivial tool that – despite the temptation to improve and demand, develop and govern, separate and grasp – helps us renew our habits of assembly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll Incomplete features the work of award winning photographer Zun Lee, exploring and celebrating the everyday spaces of Black sociality, intimacy, belonging, and insurgency, and a preface by Denise Ferreira da Silva.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStefano Harney and Fred Moten are authors of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study. Fred teaches at New York University. 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Davis’ verse takes free flight with its muses, scatting and leaping off the page and the shoulders of the musicians, nightclubs, and choreographers she chronicles in these poems. Her odes both to recorded music and its sacred spaces of spirited encounter are at once a paean to ephemeral flashes of embodied experience and a work of preservation. Davis remembers to remember the raw feelings, smoke, dawn drunks, and impulsive energy of her moment, without forgetting its inscription into a broader political urgency. Written between 1974 and 1992, these poems are the most anthologized pieces of Davis’ work, having appeared in numerous collections of writing on black music, here finally assembled for the first time. \u003cem\u003eNothing but the Music\u003c\/em\u003e is further proof of Davis’ place as a crucial figure, alongside poets Jayne Cortez, Sonia Sanchez, and Ntozake Shange, in the cultural landscape surrounding the Black Arts Movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eFeatured musicians and dancers include Cecil Taylor, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Bad Brains, Henry Threadgill, Thelonious Monk, The Revolutionary Ensemble, The Commodores, MFSB, Dianne McIntyre, Ishmael Houston-Jones, and many more in performances at historic venues such as The Five Spot, The Village Vanguard, The Apollo, Storyville, and Club Harlem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWith a foreword by Jessica Hagedorn and an introduction by Tobi Haslett.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThulani Davis (b. 1949) is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar whose work includes works of poetry, theater, journalism, history, and film. Her engagement with African American life, culture, and history is distinguished by poetic economy, passionate musicality, and an investigative concern for justice. While a student at Barnard College, the Virginia native was “schooled” for her first spoken word performance by Gylan Kain and Felipe Luciano of the Original Last Poets, jumpstarting a life of performance that would have her put words to music by Cecil Taylor, Joseph Jarman, Juju, Arthur Blythe, Miya Masaoka, David Murray, Henry Threadgill, Tania León, and others. Living in San Francisco in the ‘70s, she joined the Third World Artists Collective, collaborated with Ntozake Shange, and worked for the \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Sun-Reporter\u003c\/em\u003e, reporting on stories such as the Soledad Brothers trial and the Angela Davis case before returning to New York and continuing to incite radical political thought as a reporter and critic for the \u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e for over a decade. This experience as a journalist blazes through her historical fiction and her other writing, breathing anecdotal life into the experiences of actors of American history who have remained unnamed as a result of bondage and other unjust erasures. Davis has collaborated with her cousin, composer Anthony Davis, writing the libretti for the operas \u003cem\u003eX, The Life and Times of Malcolm X\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAmistad\u003c\/em\u003e, and wrote the scripts for the films \u003cem\u003ePaid in Full\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMaker of Saints\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as several award-winning PBS documentaries. 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Davis continues to explore the relationship between music and language as well as the ways we define being American and deal with race with her forthcoming book \u003cem\u003eThe Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom \u003c\/em\u003e(Duke University Press) and poetry collection \u003cem\u003eNothing but the Music: Documentaries from Nightclubs, Lofts, Dance Halls \u0026amp; A Tailor’s Shop in Dakar\u003c\/em\u003e (Blank Forms Editions).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003ePoet, novelist, playwright, and performer Jessica Hagedorn was born and raised in the Philippines and came to the United States in her early teens. She is the editor of numerous anthologies and author of several books including \u003cem\u003eDogeaters\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the American Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. 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