Rhythms of Resistance in Afro-Latino Identity, Music, and Culture
The opening beats from the bombas de pellejo at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime show came from an instrument brought
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Performance
Abolition and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean: An Interview with Andrea Morales Loucil
In today’s post, Ashley Everson, a managing editor of Global Black Thought (the official journal of AAIHS), interviews Andrea Morales Loucil about
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The Meaning of Black Inexpression
Tina Post’s first monograph, Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, charts the territory of deadpan as a Black aesthetic practice. Deadpan, a
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Online Forum–Bounce Music
October 24, 2022 to October 29, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is hosting an
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Sounding South Asian, Sounding Black: The Sonic Politics of Appreciation or Appropriation
On the dance floor, we dance to the same beats per minute (BPM). The tempo that structures Black diasporic life
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