e-flux Journal #132

<p>“Black Rave”—that’s a great way to think about the sonics of insurgency, a phrase that brings politics back into dance music and culture. Electronic dance music comes from a place of politics, as much as musical purists and Twitter trolls love to insist that “race doesn’t matter” or that “it’s just about the music,” never mind who gets booked to play that music. In the issue, Blair Black and Alexander Weheliye do a wonderful job reminding us of the strategic ways that Blackness and queerness have been removed from electronic music. Which is why the word “rave” is such a racialized one, even as Black people have been raving from the jump…</p> <p><strong>Editorial: Black Rave</strong><br /> madison moore and McKenzie Wark</p> <p><strong>Dark Banjee Aesthetic: Hearing a Queer-of-Color Archive within Club Music</strong><br /> Blair Black</p> <p><strong>Don’t Take It Away: BlackFem Voices in Electronic Dance Music</strong><br /> Alexander Ghedi Weheliye</p> <p><strong>Do You Remember When We Just Lived?</strong><br /> Dion McKenzie aka TYGAPAW</p> <p><strong>I Didn’t Have Any Choice But to Become an Artist</strong><br /> Jasmine Infiniti</p> <p><strong>A Whale Unbothered: Theorizing the Ecosystem of the Ballroom Scene</strong><br /> Julian Kevon Glover</p> <p><strong>A Universal History of the Afterparty</strong><br /> Leo Felipe</p> <p><strong>Dissonance: A Suite on Trans Femme Noise</strong><br /> Eva Pensis</p> <p><strong>Hood Rave LA: Framing The Black Femme Underground</strong><br /> Kumi James aka BAE BAE</p> <p><strong>Don’t Techno For an Answer</strong><br /> Tavia Nyong’o</p> <p><strong>Mix: Black Techno | Queer Rave</strong><br /> MORENXXX</p> <p><strong>Mix: Aural Battle Armor<br /> </strong>Femanyst</p> <p><strong>Contents Under Pressure: A (Queer) Techno Manifesto</strong><br /> madison moore</p>