Abstract

Inspired by jazz’s epistemologies and structures, this article was written as a Black liberatory jazz album on Black Boy Joy. Threaded through musical tracks, Black Boy Joy is conceptualized as a Black spiritual Life Force and a liberatory emotional expression that refuses the anti-Black curriculum antagonizing Black boys. Black Boy Joy centers Black joy through desire-based refusal and reclaims Black subjectivities and futures through Black aesthetics. Black Boy Joy is the quotidian refusal to stay in one's designated "place" and provides a space that gives Black boys futures that they want now through Black liberatory fantasy. Through fantasies and desires, I demonstrate how vital improvisation and dissonance is to creating Black liberated futures. Through the good mess of jazz improvisation, I invite the audience to (re)imagine, (re)explore, and linger with these concepts within a musical Black Study.

摘要

受爵士乐认识论和结构的启发，这篇文章被写成 Black Boy Joy 上的黑人解放爵士乐专辑。通过音乐曲目，Black Boy Joy 被概念化为一种黑人精神生命力和一种解放的情感表达，拒绝对抗黑人男孩的反黑人课程。Black Boy Joy 以基于欲望的拒绝为中心，并通过黑人美学重新唤起黑人的主观性和未来。Black Boy Joy 是日常拒绝留在一个人指定的“地方”，并提供了一个空间，通过黑人解放幻想给黑人男孩他们现在想要的未来。通过幻想和欲望，我展示了即兴创作和不和谐对于创造黑人解放的未来是多么重要。通过好混乱 在爵士即兴创作中，我邀请观众在音乐黑人研究中（重新）想象、（重新）探索和停留在这些概念上。