Jayna Brown: Black Utopias, Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds Dazed and Confused The collection of texts is

The collection of texts is supplemented by letters and extracts from related scenarios /scriptsand rounded out with an index of the people involved

a reference to Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s novel

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Jayna Brown: Black Utopias, Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds Dazed and Confused The collection of texts isDuke 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