#course materials

Alan Clarke, The Firm (1989)

Jeremy Deller, Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-92 (2019)

Isaac Julien, Young Soul Rebels (1991)

Iara Lee, Modulations (1998)

Shane Meadows, This is England (2006)

Franco Rosso, Babylon (1980)

Matthew Smith, Champion Sound (2010)

Anthony Avery, "Folklore and Alternative Masculinities in a Rave Scene" (2005)

Andrew Apter, "Herskovits's Heritage: Rethinking Syncretism in the African Diaspora," in Diaspora (1991)

Bill Buford, Among the Thugs (1980)

Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (2006)

Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993)

Ivelaw Griffith, The Political Economy of Drugs in the Caribbean (2003)

Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979)

---. Cut ‘n Mix: Culture, Identity, and Caribbean Music (1987)

Ben Jones, The Working Class in Mid-Twentieth-Century England: Community, Identity, and Social Memory (2012)

---. "Casual Culture and Football Hooligan Autobiographies: Popular Memory, Working-Class Men and Racialised Masculinities in Deindustrializing Britain, 1970s-1990s" (2024)

---. "Football Casuals, Fanzines, and Acid House: Working Class Subcultures, Emotional Communities, and Popular Individualism in 1980s and 1990s England" (2023)

Joel T. Jordan, Searching for the Perfect Beat: Flyer Designs of the American Rave Scene (2003)

Alesso Kolioulis, "Borderlands: Dub Techno's Hauntological Politics of Acoustic Ecology" (2015)

Joshua Landy and Michael Saler, The Reenchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age (2009)

Louis Meintjes, Sound of Africa (2003)

Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture (1998)

R. Murry Schaefer, The Soundscape: Our Changing Environment and the Tuning of the World (1994)

Elliott Schwartz, Electronic Music: A Listener's Guide (1973)

Harry Shapiro, Waiting for the Man: The Story of Drugs and Popular Music (2003)

Michael Veal, Dub: Soundscapes & Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae (2007)

One of the interesting features of Baldwin’s essay is the breadth of scholarly and cultural knowledge it displays, and at the same time expects of its readers –– without ever becoming a piece of either literary criticism or cultural theory itself. Besides the initial plunge into an ongoing argument over “the use, or the status, or the reality” of what Baldwin is calling “black English” (a construct not readily reducible to the more familiar category AAVE), Baldwin’s opening paragraphs also immediately position his essay within –– and in some ways as counterpoint to –– the discussions that were circulating in French intellectual circles at the time of his writing (1979). 

Sidenote: Despite his association with the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S., Baldwin spent a substantial portion of his career living and writing from within the French-speaking world. 

It’s probably instructive to take a quick look at some of the ideas and conversations that were floating around in French philosophy in the years leading up to Baldwin’s “If Black English Isn’t a Language...” essay: 

Late 1960s: Jacques Derrida publishes a series of works developing the “deconstructivist” approach for which he is primarily known. These works, broadly speaking, post a poststructuralist challenge to basic Saussurian linguistics by troubling the nature of the relationship between the “signifier” (typically a word or gesture) and the “signified” (the thing you mean when you say the word or make the gesture). In particular, Derrida questions whether any two participants in a conversation (in linguistics, “interlocutors”) can ever truly be referring to exactly the same signified. That is to say: can different people ever truly share a meaning? The answer has implications not just for the efficacy of communication, but for the stability of identity: what is the relationship between what we mean and who we are? 

1972: William Labov publishes Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular –– the first major linguistic study of the English spoken by urban African Americans and, in its day, a groundbreaking study whose political and cultural ramifications were further confirmed by Labov’s own opinion piece on “Academic Ignorance and Black Intelligence,” published in The Atlantic in June of the same year. 

1972: Also in 1972, Algerian-born French theorist Louis Althusser publishes his famous essay on “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses...” in which he elaborates the notion of interpellation. This concept, which describes the way a subject (in philosophy, “the subject” often refers not to the topic of conversation or to the subject of a sentence, but rather to an individual, self-aware and socially-located sentient being) is positioned by all the structures and dynamics of power in which they are embedded or enmeshed, quickly becomes influential within French Marxist philosophy. 

Sidenote: In 1960s-1970s French theory, the term “Marxist” did not have quite the negative connotations that it holds for many people in the U.S. today; that’s important to keep in mind as we attempt to understand the cultural significance of these discussions and the terms used within them. 

1978: Edward Said publishes Orientalism. Another paradigm-shifting text, Orientalism draws on poststructuralist understandings of subjectivity (the individual conscious being’s sense of self as a distinct entity) as a process and product of discourse to articulate his concept of “the Other” as a point of contrast and a social position to which (white, European) colonialist narratives continually relegate the inhabitants of colonial empires. Very briefly, in Said’s telling European narratives build subjectivity through repeatedly constituting North African and Middle Eastern subjects as exotic, alien “Others” against which the European subjects can then be contrastively defined. 

1979: James Baldwin’s essay “If Black English Isn’t a Language, then Tell Me, What Is It?” is published in The New York Times. 

Reading Baldwin against the backdrop of these ongoing cultural tensions and debates helps us to get a better handle on where his own argument “fits”: where his thesis is coming from, and where his reasoning is headed.  

Labov’s work doesn’t necessarily initiate the conversation around “the use, or the status, or the reality” (Baldwin 762) of what Labov calls the “Black English Vernacular” so much as it crystallizes the terms of the debate so that they can be articulated (maybe even interpellated) and addressed. Derrida’s questioning of the fixity or idiosyncrasy of the relationship between signifier and signified is the intellectual shot that was heard around the world; its implications will be debated for decades, even among people who have never heard the name Derrida.  

If you happen to be familiar with both Derrida and Labov –– as I would suggest Baldwin, at the time of writing, clearly is –– then Althusser’s claims about the function of interpellation in reinforcing social hierarchies and maintaining the status quo immediately emerges to the fore as a means whereby linguistic variation (Labov) and unstable/non-universal signifieds (Derrida) make it possible to call forth some subjects and impossible even to recognize others (a point Baldwin will raise in the course of his essay).  Similarly, within this context the practices that Said calls “Othering” form a particularly glaring usage of this Althusserian deployment of language, in use, as a tool of ideology and, thus, of power. 

It’s worth returning, at this point, to the final sentence of Baldwin’s opening paragraph.  Even without the benefit of the cultural and intellectual history I have just outlined, we could probably make a broad guess at his meaning –– but if we read the passage again with the context just established in mind, I think we can see him linking together Althusser and Said: “the other” as per Said (Baldwin 762) “is refusing to be defined” (Baldwin 762) as per Althusser (although Althusser himself would probably reject the idea that any subject could effectively refuse interpellation) “by a language that has never been able to recognize him” (Baldwin 762) –– Baldwin’s own intervention into the conversation, and a way of turning the problem on its head: If non-white colonial subjects are perpetually defined as “Other,” exotic, alien, then by necessity they are always being positioned as outside the known parameters of English. 

It is Baldwin’s recognition that interpellation means not just submitting to definition by language, but also the ability to use that definition and positioning as one’s own point of entry into conversation, that leads to his further framing, in the next paragraph, of the price of language as “the acceptance, and achievement, of one’s temporal identity” (Baldwin 762). 

M- For your first classes anyways, most profs will either email or post on SLATE with the materials you need.(Off the top of my head I remember that for Conceptual Process we were told to bring our sketchbook + pencil case. For painting you should be given a list of the materials you need for the first class such as colours of paint, something to paint on, palette paper, general painting needs.)Again, for your first classes don’t sweat it too much. If your prof doesn’t post anything, just bring your pencil case and sketchbook. And if you are missing something, there’s the bookstore on campus that should have everything you need in case you’re missing or forgot something.

C- Pretty much what M said, profs will let you know what supplies you need before/during your first class. If you took Art Fundies, most of what you get in your kit lines up with what you use in first year (except for maybe the sculpting tools).

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