Sarita McCoy Gregory

Harmonic Earthquakes and "Sonic" Notes from the Underground: Improvisation and Tremors of Transatlantic Discontent, a talk by Sarita McCoy Gregory, Vassar College

Source: Yulanda Denoon
February 1, 2011

This talk examines the musical festival documented in 2004 called Banlieue Bleues, which featured African American musicians from the AACM tradition. In scientific parlance, harmonic earthquakes are seismic pre-tremors that predict major earthquakes. Because the media tend to focus on the seemingly “spontaneous" events of “riots" or urban “protests," what is often missed are the tremors and sonic notes of disquiet that precede these events. These “harmonic earthquakes," while often neglected, can be valuable in learning the various strategies of ...
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