Paul GIlroy: "Never Again: Refusing Race and Salvaging the Human" (The 2019 Holberg Lecture)

Paul Gilroy discusses a range of topics, including his childhood and adolesence in post-colonial Britain, his research on race and identity, and how to best meet the threats posed by neo-fascism and the climate crisis. +   +

In Selected Writings on Race and Difference, editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlight his extensive and groundbreaking engagement with race, representation, identity, difference, and diaspora. Spanning the whole of his career, this collection includes classic theoretical essays such as “The Whites of their Eyes” (1979) and “Race, the Floating Signifier” (1997). It also features public lectures, political articles, and popular pieces that circulated in periodicals and newspapers, which demonstrate the breadth and depth of Hall's contribution to public discourses of race. Foregrounding how and why the analysis of race and difference should be concrete and not merely descriptive, this collection gives organizers and students of social theory ways to approach the interconnections of race with culture and consciousness, state and society, policing and freedom

There Ain't No Black In The Union Jack

“Things had been different when Garveyism and Ethiopianism rather than afro-centrism and occultism set the tone. To contain modernity, to appreciate its colonial constitution and to criticise its reliance on racialised governmental codes all required finding an autonomous space outside it. A desire to exist elsewhere supplied the governing impulse. It was captured in compelling forms in the period's best songs of longing and flight, like Bunny Wailer's anthem ‘Dreamland’. However, there is no longer any uncontaminated, pastoral or romantic location to which opposition and dissent might fly, and so, a new culture of consolation has been fashioned in which being against this tainted modernity has come to mean being before it. Comparable investments in the restorative power of the pseudo-archaic occur elsewhere. They help to make Harry Potter's world attractive and are routine features of much ‘new age’ thinking. They govern the quest for a repudiation of modernity that is shared by the various versions of Islam which have largely eclipsed Ethiopianism as the principal spiritual resource and wellspring of critique among young black Europeans. Their desire to find an exit from consumerism's triumphant phantasmagoria reveals them to be bereft, adrift without the guidance they would have absorbed, more indirectly than formally, from the national liberation movements of the cold war period and the struggles for both civil and human rights with which they were connected. Instead, an America-centred, consumer-oriented culture of blackness has become prominent. In this post-colonial setting, it conditions the dreams of many young Britons, irrespective of their ancestral origins or physical appearance. This brash and celebratory imperial formation is barely embarrassed by the geo-political fault-line that re-divides the world, opposing the overdeveloped north to the suffering south. That barrier provides the defining element in a new topography of global power which is making heavy demands upon the overwhelmingly national character of civil society and ideal of national citizenship. It is clear that the versions of black politics that belonged to the west/rest polarity will not adapt easily to this new configuration.” ― Paul Gilroy, There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack

The last humanist: how Paul Gilroy became the most vital guide to our age of crisis

Insanely mesmerising

This is INSANE!

The bit at the end 😱 pic.twitter.com/Vcep9dQ0aT

— Ann is still European 💜 Vaxxed AF still masking (@56blackcat) August 12, 2021

This is mesmerising pic.twitter.com/6QPT9qrXxH

— Giles Paley-Phillips (@eliistender10) August 12, 2021

This One's On You Mix

Tracklist: 

Intro 

LSK - Space Oddity (Unreleased) 

Peaking Lights - Tiger Eyes (Laid Back) (Sherwood Remix)

Little Annie - Rise Dub (12”) 

Vivien Goldman - Private Armies Dub (V2) 

The Slits - Man Next Door (Uncredited Sherwood Mix 12”) 

Air - How Does It Make You Feel (Sherwood Version) 

Dub Syndicate - Doomsville/Stealing (Unreleased) 

Strange Parcels - High Ideals & Crazy Dreams Dub (Unreleased) 

Dub Syndicate - Tremelo Dub / Tremelo Dub 2 (Unreleased) 

Consolidated - Who Controls The Past (Sherwood Electro Mix) 

Dubiterian - Space Oddity (Melodica Version) 

Outro 

 A mix of On-U Sound goodies (old, new and unreleased) that I made for a friend's internet radio show

The Mood I'm In Mix

Tracklist:

1 Inspiration - Mike Banks

2 Don't Fight It Feel It (Graham Massey Mix) - Primal Scream

3 Wide Sky - Jon Hassell

4 Lost Arts, Lonely Angels - Earth House Hold

5 After The War (Steve Law Megamix) - Black Cab

6 Dissent (Chapter 1) - Moritz Von Oswald Trio

7 Stalker - Fuck Buttons

8 Pressure - The Bug (ft Flowdan)

Australia’s vaccination plan is 6 months too late and a masterclass in jargon

STOP THE PRESS!

Omg at long last -helping with some new @mightytackhead tunes

— mark stewart (@_markstewart) August 4, 2021

Dot Allison's 'Heart Shaped Scars' is #TimsTwitterListeningParty right now

Dot Allison 

https://twitter.com/hashtag/TimsTwitterListeningParty

Ghost Orchid-This was written using an ancient poem I wrote in 2004, Church Of Snow, while working with Massive Attack I showed it to 3D & he loved it and asked me to post it in the MA forum which I did I guess I never forgot it partly because of that..#timstwitterlisteningparty

— Dot Allison 🕊 (@DotAllisonmusic) August 5, 2021

It's NOT the fugn Rolling Stones then is it?

SWIPE! GENIUS

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It's a start but Hillsong's most famous parishioner thinks ...well read for yourself

Dub This Road - TAIKOPERA (ダブ・ディス・ロード - たいこペラ) | Powell Street Festival 2021

An innovative musical meeting, and long-distance hi-fi collaboration between British hapa singer / recording artist Denise Sherwood and groundbreaking all-women’s drum groups, Sawagi and Onibana Taiko, with sound designs by legendary dub reggae producer Adrian Sherwood 

Specially recorded for Powell Street Festival online, DUB THIS ROAD is a short film adaptation of Denise Sherwood’s debut album THIS ROAD, and presented as a preview version of TAIKOPERA- an experimental concept fusion of taiko drumming and contemporary opera. 

Featuring a unique cast of musicians and performers in a 21st century journey of performance traditions and pandemic theatrics, DUB THIS ROAD (TAIKOPERA) is a risky synthesis, a multidisciplinary meditation, which expands and connects diverse cultural perspectives and Asian Canadian histories. Production/direction: Don Chow 

Don Chow curates a collaboration with Denise Sherwood (Japanese-British) and Adrian Sherwood (indie record producer and father of emerging singer-songwriter Denise) and two Vancouver taiko groups

Chinese translation

I've known Rolo since the early-mid eighties and you should trust his musical judgement too

 

I never went to Glastonbury but I did see Fela in 1984. From memory I think it was at The Venue in Victoria that he played at and then after the gig we were either told about the Hampstead gig or maybe it was a leaflet. (Vivian Goldman wrote about it for the NME and if anyone feels like liberating that from RBP for me well I would be so grateful) and yeah it was a strange and disorientating night to say the least. I seem to remember Professor Hindu getting his throat cut too. Is that a real memory but didn't that happen at The Venue before...

Sometime in the morning I will be listening to this mix...

Tracklist: 

Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Nocturnal Anatomy 

Nurse With Wound - Mothering Tongue 

Moor Mother - Valley of Dry Bones 

Sevdaliza - Hero 

Kikuri - That Place Into Which You Fell Was Lined With A Cushion of Pain And Is No Proof of Your Continuing Existence 

Jah Wobble - Just Me And Phil 

Kelela - Hallucinogen 

Hospital Ships - Nothing To Hide 

Lone Taxidermist - Dribble Wizard 

L.A.N.D. - Nothing Is Happening Everywhere 

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Existence In The Unfurling 

KiKu & Blixa Bargeld & Black Cracker - Like This 

Burial - Rodent (Kode9 Remix)

Sounds to me like a good soundtrack to the new day coming. Originally put together in pre-pandemic times three years ago

...oh and also this one from 4 years ago  Tracklist:  

Brock Van Wey - A Gentle Hand To Hold 

Netherworld - New Horizons 

Echospace - Sonorous [Variant Reduction] 

Nico Muhly - Drones & Viola (Part IV: Material In A Long Cadence)  

Ian Hawgood & Wil Bolton - Defined Horizons 

Murcof X Vanessa Wagner - Erik Satie's Gnossienne No. 3 [Album Version] 

Shinichi Atobe - Waste Land 1 

Makyo - A Piece of Forgotten Song Drifting Across the Water [Haad Rin Sunrise Mix] 

Zonal - Chrystalline

Ian Hawgood - Beauty In The Breakage