Archive - Black Music and Black Muses

Nikki Giovanni will Live Forever

My friends and I threw a lot of parties in college.

Dec 10 •

Harmony Holiday

Meditations on who we might have been or used to be before the Internet's public squares and immutable feasts and why I like us better now.

Dec 9 •

Harmony Holiday

Joni Mitchell Seldom Lies

Her recollections of Miles Davis, Mingus, and Tony Williams

Dec 6 •

Harmony Holiday

This Perfect Life

Dec 4 •

Harmony Holiday

Love for Sale/I'm Thankful

Holiday discount at Black Music and Black Muses

Dec 3 •

Harmony Holiday

Black-eyed angels swarm with me: on a family picture I rediscovered this Thanksgiving

Dec 2 •

Harmony Holiday

November 2024

Abbey Lincoln in her own voice

Circa 1996, Speaking on the many phases of her career

Nov 30 •

Harmony Holiday

8:07

Bereave the Hype

On Kendrick Lamar's GNX and the formulaic worship of emcees from the greats to the disgraced

Nov 27 •

Harmony Holiday

Alice Coltrane, speaking

Excerpt from a conversation between Brandford Marsalis and Alice Coltrane

Nov 26 •

Harmony Holiday

Now she sings, now she sobs

Excerpts from the life of Abbey Lincoln

Nov 22 •

Harmony Holiday

Shit, Damn, Motherfucker

D'Angelo, My father, and the cleansed purpose of low-level street violence

Nov 20 •

Harmony Holiday

Baby, you're a lost cause

And Beyoncé can't save you

Nov 6 •

Harmony Holiday

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