Dhanveer Singh Brar is a Lecturer in Visual Cultures in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. His teaching and research addresses the relationship between sonic culture, critical theory and political radicalism in black and postcolonial diasporas from the late twentieth century to the present. His first monograph Beefy’s Tune (Dean Blunt Edit) is out with The 87 Press and Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early Twenty-First Century is forthcoming in April 2021 with Goldsmiths Press / MIT Press. Dhanveer is also a member of Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective and Lovers Discourse.
In this online talk, scholar and vocalist Fumi Okiji discusses the aesthetic sociality of music.