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An innovative look at the dynamic role of sound in the culture of the African Diaspora as found in poetry, film, travel narratives, and popular music. Black Soundscapes White Stages explores the role of sound in understanding the African Diaspora on both sides of the Atlantic, from the City of Light to the islands of the French Antilles. From the writings of European travelers in the seventeenth century to short-wave radio transmissions in the early twentieth century, Edwin C. Hill Jr. uses music, folk song, film, and poetry to listen for the tragic cri nègre. Building a conceptualization of black Atlantic sound inspired by Frantz Fanon's pioneering work on colonial speech and desire, Hill contends that sound constitutes a terrain of contestation, both violent and pleasurable, where colonial and anti-colonial ideas about race and gender are critically imagined, inscribed, explored, and resisted. In the process, this book explores the dreams and realizations of black diasporic mobility and separation as represented by some of its most powerful soundtexts and cultural practitioners, and it poses questions about their legacies for us today. In the process, thee dreams and realities of Black Atlantic mobility and separation as represented by some of its most powerful soundtexts and cultural practitioners, such as the poetry of Léon-Gontran Damas—a founder of the Négritude movement—and Josephine Baker's performance in the 1935 film Princesse Tam Tam. As the first in Johns Hopkins's new series on the African Diaspora, this book offers new insight into the legacies of these exceptional artists and their global influence.

Hill reflects on the 2013 Callaloo Conference in Oxford. It was the occasion for meeting black scholars and writers from around the world, but also for meeting local black folks dealing with the manifestations of racism, migration, and transnationality in their own lives and languages. The conference beautifully brought together many brilliant writers and pioneering scholars, but it also brought together \"local and the itinerant\" as well as \"the activist and the academic,\" providing opportunities for mutually informing dialogue and intense debate, creating the conditions of possibility for forging alliances but also for marking lines of disagreement and discontent.

Behind the news that Artist Walt Disney will hereafter do all his work and transact all his affairs in Hollywood, lies one of those human stories which make news live. For the announcement means that Mickey Mouse has gone to California—Mickey and his beloved Minnie and all the little mice. Well, Mickey should have quite a few years to enjoy the golden sunshine of beautiful Southern California. He is only five years old which, while fairly well along in years for the ordinary mouse, is nothing for the irrepressible, ageless Mickey. For Mickey Mouse, like Alice in Wonderland, will

Behind the news that Artist Walt Disney will hereafter do all his work and transact all his affairs in Hollywood, lies one of those human stories which make news live. For the announcement means that Mickey Mouse has gone to California—Mickey and his beloved Minnie and all the little mice. Well, Mickey should have quite a few years to enjoy the golden sunshine of beautiful Southern California. He is only five years old which, while fairly well along in years for the ordinary mouse, is nothing for the irrepressible, ageless Mickey. For Mickey Mouse, like Alice in Wonderland, will