Table of Contents:
  • Resistance of the object: Aunt Hester's scream
  • 1. The sentimental avant-garde. Duke Ellington's sound of love ; Voices/forces ; Sound in florescence (Cecil Taylor Floating Garden) ; Praying with Eric
  • 2. In the break. Tragedy, elegy ; The dark lady and the sexual cut ; German inversion ; 'Round the five spot
  • 3. Visible music. Baldwin's Baraka, his mirror stage, the sound of his gaze ; Black mo'nin' in the sound of the photograph ; Tonality of totality
  • Resistance of the object : Adrian Piper's theatricality.