Jayna Brown: Black Utopias, Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds Dazed and Confused Exiled in 1955 from the

Exiled in 1955 from the US for her affiliation to the Communist Party

Syms’ internal world was generously laid bare to the viewer

when his unique sound brought him to prominence in the turbulent worlds of Tokyo’s underground film and music

64 × 45 cm

given the robotic-like means of which it is made

Jayna Brown: Black Utopias, Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds Dazed and Confused Exiled in 1955 from theDuke University Press, 2021, Softcover, 224 pages, 22. 8 15. 2 cm In Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of creative worldmaking. Brown explores the lives and work of Black women mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians