Rhythm Race Revolution is an 8-week course with Aditi Jaganathan that uses music and its attendant cultural texts, as a site of deep study, through which ideas of race, gender, colonialism, healing and transformative justice are collectively explored. It is a radical learning space tracing the sonic(s) of resistance.
Session 1:
Sound as the beating heart of revolution
In this session we will explore the ways in which sound culture has been used as a tool of rupture, refusing the dull hum of the colonial logic. Thinking with Eugene McDaniels, Fred Moten and Miriam Makeba, we will flesh out the radical poetics of music and how it prises open pathways for otherwise possibilities.
Bio
Dr Aditi Jaganathan is a thinker and creator, writer and dreamer. Having worked at the intersections of law, culture and politics in various capacities, Aditi is motivated by a politics of refusal, living in rupture as rapture; turning away from hegemonic worlds of oppression and tuning into something different, beyond the world we live in and moving to the rhythms of an elsewhere. It is this compulsion which guides her pedagogy in the education work she does. Riffing off education for liberation, she creates spaces of (un)learning as a site of radical praxis, using tools of music, film and visual culture, to unpack the ways in which ideologies of oppression and liberation travel through cultural production.
Reading lists will be provided to those who book. Places are limited.
Rhythm Race Revolution is an 8-week course with Aditi Jaganathan that uses music and its attendant cultural texts, as a site of deep study, through which ideas of race, gender, colonialism, healing and transformative justice are collectively explored. It is a radical learning space tracing the sonic(s) of resistance.
Session 1:
Sound as the beating heart of revolution
In this session we will explore the ways in which sound culture has been used as a tool of rupture, refusing the dull hum of the colonial logic. Thinking with Eugene McDaniels, Fred Moten and Miriam Makeba, we will flesh out the radical poetics of music and how it prises open pathways for otherwise possibilities.
Bio
Dr Aditi Jaganathan is a thinker and creator, writer and dreamer. Having worked at the intersections of law, culture and politics in various capacities, Aditi is motivated by a politics of refusal, living in rupture as rapture; turning away from hegemonic worlds of oppression and tuning into something different, beyond the world we live in and moving to the rhythms of an elsewhere. It is this compulsion which guides her pedagogy in the education work she does. Riffing off education for liberation, she creates spaces of (un)learning as a site of radical praxis, using tools of music, film and visual culture, to unpack the ways in which ideologies of oppression and liberation travel through cultural production.
Reading lists will be provided to those who book. Places are limited.