EP 57: Sounds of Blackness 2

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

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🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It’s back! Sounds of Blackness. What is a sound that embodies Blackness to you? We’ve been asking high and low and the answers have us reflecting, laughing, tearing up and feeling absolute joy. Today we take a sonic dip into sounds that embody Blackness. We also sit down with poet Nikki Giovanni, and hear from many more about the sounds that move them.

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0:00.0	My sound of blackness is our Sudanese lullaby.
0:13.2	My black sound is yurt, yurt is essentially yurt.
0:18.2	That's what we say out in Brooklyn.
0:19.6	That's what we say in the US.
0:20.8	Essentially it's love to the folks and everybody joins and they start saying yurt, yurt, yurt.
0:26.4	You know, yurt, yurt, you can hear from the, as soon as you walk in the door, you know, it's fish rhyme.
0:34.0	Between the smell and the sound you know it's one of the two.
0:37.0	Check in on fish, yurt though.
0:42.5	It's the crappy, the churches.
0:47.5	Because it wasn't just this, it was like.
0:56.4	My sound of blackness is
1:05.6	Oh, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
1:09.1	I know, I know, I know, I know
1:12.4	And I know that I've been in that em all
1:15.2	You know, something like the Lion King thing, you know?
1:17.9	Hey, Lila?
1:20.0	Hey, Hanah.
1:21.2	Hannah, what is a sound that embodies blackness to you?
1:27.2	I would have to say the Zagaruta.
1:31.2	Zagaruta.
1:32.2	Did I say that right?
1:33.2	Zagaruta.
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