New York theorist, writer, and musician DeForrest Brown, Jr. surveys the state of Black representation across the music industry, covering a general history of Black music (with a focus on techno) as it relates to the general development of on-the-ground music cultures.
Brown, Jr. will facilitate a discussion on the necessity for a rational understanding of equity and diversity in the music industry, charting the material realities of inequitable infrastructures and platforms that music is dependent on. This serves as a point of departure to think together beyond concepts of the »future« as well as culture and value set into place by colonial initiatives, which favours unsustainable productivity and growth in a time where economic, political and social structures are extremely fragile.
A book related to this workshop will be published by DeForrest Brown Jr. with Primary Information later in 2021.