Jayna Brown: Black Utopias, Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds Dazed and Confused given the robotic-like means of

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Exiled in 1955 from the US for her affiliation to the Communist Party

Jayna Brown: Black Utopias, Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds Dazed and Confused given the robotic-like means ofDuke University Press, 2021, Softcover, 224 pages, 22. 8 15. 2 cm In 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