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House as Cultural Politics / Cultural Theory
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House as ripe to be explored, theorized, documented in a nuanced way
As a manifestation of local/global cultural politics
As discourses of gender/sexuality, race/ethnicity, class, communities of belonging
As an embodied dialectic of the sacred and profane
Of US puritanical respectability and a counter-resistance of slackness, sexuality
Of a critical utopia
A treatise on love as radical transformation
Aplace to conceive the body as power, knowledge, labor, meaning, code, discourse, action
And as a historical narrative of continued discrimination, disenfranchisement, disempowerment, displacement…
Bittersweet longing and the nectar of salvation…
House as ripe to be explored, theorized, documented in a nuanced way
As a manifestation of local/global cultural politics
As discourses of gender/sexuality, race/ethnicity, class, communities of belonging
As an embodied dialectic of the sacred and profane
Of US puritanical respectability and a counter-resistance of slackness, sexuality
Of a critical utopia
A treatise on love as radical transformation
Aplace to conceive the body as power, knowledge, labor, meaning, code, discourse, action
And as a historical narrative of continued discrimination, disenfranchisement, disempowerment, displacement…
Bittersweet longing and the nectar of salvation…
A Chi-House Manifesto
The preceding link is an offering up (of sorts) of a template to name(call up) Chicago House aesthetics as a discursive utopic collective sociocultural (and literal, body) politic. In the spirit of urban anthropologist, Setha Low, Chicago House offers a site for "theorizing the city" that is Chicago from the perspectives of thosewho've long inhabited its peripheries even as our culture work lives as the core of city.
House Nation: critical culture notes (2006)
Applications for Househedz: The Consuming Blackness Diasporically Project
http://cbdcollaboration.wetpaint.com/
Consuming Blackness Diasporically (CBD) is a performance ethnography project focusing on traditions across Black diaspora including Trinidadian "rapso," Chicago “house”, and Brazilian "capoiera." In a collaborative format, CBD explores the interaction of concepts of race, ethnicity, nation, and resistance in expressions of urban black difference. The CBD technology platform will incorporate existing multimedia technologies (wikis, blogs, and “jam” sessions facilitated through real time videoconference links) to create an intimate forum where artists and scholars can present, exchange and produce their experiences of and reflections on blackness, identity, citizenship and belonging through a virtually-mediated critical/creative exchange. How can the CBD project help us to think about "diaspora" as a mode of action, as creative process and as a site of intercultural dialogue between localities that are both unique and linked through traditions of black cultural practice?
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