The Social Justice Institute
Noted Scholars Series presents:
“An aformative Impulse. Chest Punch. A Working Paper on Bass"
Co-sponsored by the UBC Pre sident’s Office & Centre for Culture\, Identity & Education
WHEN & WHERE
Zoom
March 30th\, 12-1 PM
RSVPs for this event are now closed.
All events are free and open to the public.
In this presentation I share some preliminary thoughts on music\, sound\, and groo ve\, focusing specifically on the bass\, basslines\, and bass sounds. I bui ld on scholarship in black studies\, sound studies\, and studies of black p opular culture and black music\; I hold steady Richad Iton’s “anaformative impulse” to think about how black music\, and the bass\, resists hierarchy\ , hegemony\, and administration\, and interrupts colonial narratives by rea rticulating them in ways that unsettle prevailing knowledge systems.
Katherine McKittrick is Profes sor of Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen’s University. She authored Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartogra phies of Struggle (UMP\, 2006) and edited and contributed to Sylvi a Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis (DUP\, 2015). Her most recent monog raph\, Dear Science and Other Stories (DUP\, 2021) is an explorati on of black methodologies.