Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices

by Jessie Cox

Writing as a scholar, composer, and musician, Jessie Cox foregrounds the experience of Black Swiss through sound and music in his first book, Sounds of Black Switzerland. Cox, himself Black Swiss, affirms the value of Black life through sound while critiquing anti-Blackness as a cause of erasure, silence, and limitation. He examines Swiss Nigerian composer Charles Uzor's pieces for George Floyd, work by Black Swiss musicians such as DJ Ma t...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478028211
• ISBN13: 9781478028215
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.