Archive - Black Music and Black Muses

Anaphora in Rap

Close reading of a brief filmed interview featuring Diddy and Biggie, circa 1993

Jul 3 •

Harmony Holiday

On the first song that mattered to me , Stevie Wonder's "Ribbon in the Sky"

Jul 2 •

Harmony Holiday

June 2025

May 2025

Where the Psyop Ends, Atonement

Notes on bad music and a good book

May 24 •

Harmony Holiday

Encomium for No One

Notebook from my week in writing and listening

May 16 •

Harmony Holiday

Ripping off Black Masks

Diddy and the Dandies in Review

May 9 •

Harmony Holiday

Yo mama so wounded

The mother wound in music, and in us

May 4 •

Harmony Holiday

April 2025

Variations on the Killing Floor Blues

On Sinners (the film) and Haints—the saints are dead

Apr 28 •

Harmony Holiday

Notes on the week in music staring Mingus and his Shadow

Apr 26 •

Harmony Holiday

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