Sat, 16 January 2021
18:00–20:00 CET
Online
Max 15 participants, via open call
Application deadline 21 December 2020
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.