Black Utopias - Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds Federico Campagna An odyssey told through the

An odyssey told through the people who battled the sea and the sound

shallow waters

Meredith McKinney

from the simple-edged kerbstone puddle to sluggish puddle collectives to highly volatile veil puddles

and the profligate use of resources must also prioritize the repair and upkeep of existing buildings

Black Utopias - Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds Federico Campagna An odyssey told through theIn Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of creative worldmaking. Brown explores the lives and work of Black women mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, and the work of speculative fiction writers