*STABLEHEED EVENTS

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BLACK MUSIC

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Archival / Live Music / Sonic Curation / Art Gallery

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Black Music is the brain child of Deon Jamar, curated by Brian Oscar through Stableheed to give appreciation to Black Music

Black Music is an event where we celebrate the contributions that Black people have made to music across the divisions of time, space, and genre. We hold a deep respect for the healing power of music that people of the African diaspora have harnessed throughout our lineage.

Being located in Detroit, a city that holds an immense amount of musical innovation of the past, present, and most certainly, the future, we consistently witness the distancing and dilution of music from their Black roots. Through a predominantly white-owned media structure, we see our people being told what music is for us and what music is not. We’re boxed into genres and programming that don’t reflect the sounds we’re descended from, and have ascended from. Seeing and hearing this disjuncture and disservice as we live in the city of Detroit only strengthens our commitment to naming that this music is of Us.  

In addition to sonic output, we simultaneously acknowledge similar violence being done in the world of visual representation. During a time where self-representation is at an all-time high through expansive technology, we still see the same marketing-body that limits and controls mainstream music distribution, manipulating images of Blackness. The Black visual and sonic are always connected, from the covers of albums to what a party looks and feels like. Through Black Music we seek to transcend common assumptions, enforced by a capitalist structure, about what Blackness both looks and sounds like. We give space to joy, freedom, and release that Black art incites.