Thank you, @aloeblacc for joining the BSC! Truly a spectacular event! A special thanks to our amazing co-sponsors @usc_consortium , @usc_cmbs , and @uscbac #AloeBlacc #hiphop #Blackpopculture #Blackstudies
Join us in reading the final contribution to our series on the boundary 2 online (b2o) special issue (May 2025), edited by Erin Graff Zivin (@eringz ). In this closing piece, scholar and musician Michael Gallope (@michaelgallope ) joins USC professor Edwin Hill (@echilljr ) for a conversation following Gallope’s drone performance.
Together, they reflect on the tension between music’s ineffability and the institutional frameworks that attempt to contain it—on what it means to make sound and think with it within academic space. The exchange unfolds into a meditation on paradox, listening, and the porous boundaries between theory and performance, concluding with questions from the audience.
Remember to check out the full issue through the link in our bio, which also features contributions from Jonathan Leal, Michael J. Love, Maya Kronfeld, Michael E. Sawyer, Jamal Batts, Seth Brodsky, Eyal Peretz, Alex E. Chávez, and Naomi Waltham-Smith.
We’re so excited to finally officially invite you to an event that has been years in the planning…Kaya Press, in collaboration with USC’s Vision and Voices (@uscvandv ) and One Archive (@onearchivesusc ), is bringing you a one-of-a-kind interactive experience this February: Club Kaya 🪩
Club Kaya is tribute to and celebration of Kaya Press’ 30 years of unapologetically political publishing. Developed by artist-in-residence Alan Nakagawa and hosted by ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, Club Kaya will feature micro operas 🎭, vibratory sound experiments 🎧, book-inspired interactive music boxes 🎶, literary karaoke 🎤, and more!
Join us and guest collaborators anti-colonial musician and artist Umi Hsu (Bitter Party), Emmy- and Peabody Award–winning filmmaker Elizabeth Ito (Adventure Time, City of Ghosts), and experimental video artist Nisa Karnsomport at Club Kaya this February 12, 2025 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM.
RSVP to and read more about the event by visiting our Linktree.
Went to the Musée de la chasse et de la nature and saw you there, though it seems you weren’t meant to be seen. Barely sketched in, with less detail than a dog, all eyes were on her, the ‘woman hunter.’ Even the museum light conspired against you. And the ornate collar on your neck made me think of the ornate dog collars the museum proudly displayed. But I saw you. What life did you live? What prey was caught only thanks to you? What prowess you must have possessed! Beautiful black huntress, forgotten one, respect and peace be with you.
