Jafari S. Allen, Inaugural Co-Director of the University of Miami Center for Global Black Studies, is the author of There’s a disco ball between us: a theory of Black gay life; ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba; and editor of Black/Queer/Diaspora; among many other publications.
Jafari S. Allen
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Until We Meet on the Dance Floor Again: A Playlist
Disco is much more than what they say it was. Grounded in multivocal Blacknesses—funk and gospel, rock and roll and rhythm and blues—with new technologies and new arrangements, the disco we follow here contains multitudes, no part of which is corny or anachronistic. Our disco later came to be called club music, then house (in […]
