DJ Lynnée Denise coined the term ‘DJ Scholarship’ in 2013 to explain DJ culture as a mixed-mode research practice. She's a London and Amsterdam-based Capricorn, scholar, professor, and writer raised by her parent’s record collection in Los Angeles, California.
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The Black Atlantic/Black Fantastic @1BTN FM
I am happy to announce the relaunching of my radio show and its new title, The Black Atlantic/Black Fantastic, on 1BTN every second Sunday from 4-6 pm (UK) and 11-1 (EST). Starts today!
Shout out to Paul Gilroy’s text The Black Atlantic and the late Caribbean Canadian Richard Iton, whose epic work, In Search of the Black Fantastic, shaped much of my approach to the diaspora. For those of you who I’ve rolled with for years, you know his book has been cited like the bible. It has been since 2013.
And speaking of the bible…
I’m kicking off the show this month with a love letter to Black queer music. No, not just black queer folk who make music, but the music you might hear on a Black queer dance floor. Or music played by a Black queer DJ like Ron Hardy or Stacy Hotwaxx Hale. It might be white queer musicians like Bowie and Arthur Russell whose music crossed over into Black queer spaces. Or music Keith Harring heard at the Paradise Garage. It could even be all the gospel disco that Larry Levan mixed, from the Clark Sisters to the Joubert Singers.
Tune in to hear the range and learn how long Black queer folks have been shaping much of the pleasure in your lives, or listen later (link in bio). Little Richard, of course, was the King and Queen of it all.