Sounds of Black Switzerland

Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices

Jessie Cox (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2025
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478031437 (ISBN)

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Writing as a scholar, composer, and musician, Jessie Cox foregrounds the experience of Black Swiss through sound and music in his first book, Sounds of Black Switzerland. Cox, himself Black Swiss, affirms the value of Black life through sound while critiquing anti-Blackness as a cause of erasure, silence, and limitation. He examines Swiss Nigerian composer Charles Uzor’s pieces for George Floyd, work by Black Swiss musicians such as DJ MaÏtÉ ChÉniÈre, clarinetist JÉrÉmie Jolo, and rapper Nativ, as well as his own musical collaborations with the Lucerne Festival. In these analyses, Cox tackles the particularities of anti-Blackness in Switzerland, creating a practice of listening beyond what can be directly heard to explore the radical potential of Black thought and experience in a nation often claimed to be race-free. In so doing, he ultimately shifts thinking about Blackness in relation to citizenship, immigration laws, gender, kinship, and belonging. By listening to Black Swiss and other voices inaudible to the current world, Cox theorizes new ways of practicing scholarly study and general ways of relating to others and the world.

Jessie Cox is Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Black Swiss 1
1. Interstitial Listenings I: Charles Uzor’s Bodycam Exhibit 3, Part I 17
2. Blackness and Black Lives in Switzerland 33
3. Interstitial Listenings II: Blurring the Hold 59
4. Afrofuturist Archeology: Citizenship and the Delimitation of Life with Death 71
5. Interstitial Listenings III: Black Music behind the Wormhole 91
6. Mothership Connections 101
7. Interstitial Listenings IV: 8’46” George Floyd in Memoriam and White Gaze II Black Square 121
8. Listening with Black Switzerland 137
9. Interstitial Listenings V: Charles Uzor’s Bodycam Exhibit 3, Part II 159
10. Black Life / Schwarz-Sein 167
Conclusion. Alongside a Chorus of Voices 187
Postface. Endless Endlessness 197
Notes 203
Bibliography 225
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.12.2024
Zusatzinfo	9 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781478031437 / 9781478031437
Zustand	Neuware