{"id":7194,"date":"2021-08-26T14:01:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T18:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/?post_type=event&#038;p=7194"},"modified":"2021-11-04T17:11:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T21:11:46","slug":"how-to-go-mad-without-losing-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/how-to-go-mad-without-losing-your-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z8ub-pHRvTM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/BCRW_Captions_English\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live transcription is available here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.\u201d So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce&#8217;s urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, published in April 2021. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived experience of an unruly mind, the psychiatric category of serious mental illness, the emotional state also known as \u201crage,\u201d and any drastic deviation from psychosocial norms. With care and verve, he explores the mad in the literature of Amiri Baraka, Gayl Jones, and Ntozake Shange; in the jazz repertoires of Buddy Bolden, Sun Ra, and Charles Mingus; in the comedic performances of Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle; in the protest music of Nina Simone, Lauryn Hill, and Kendrick Lamar, and beyond. These artists activate madness as content, form, aesthetic, strategy, philosophy, and energy in an enduring black radical tradition. Joining this tradition, Bruce mobilizes a set of interpretive practices, affective dispositions, political principles, and existential orientations that he calls \u201cmad methodology.\u201d Ultimately,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is both a study and an act of critical, ethical, radical madness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>La Marr Jurelle Bruce<\/strong> will be joined in conversation by <strong>Farah Jasmine Griffin<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button warning radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/how-to-go-mad-without-losing-your-mind-tickets-168633000845\">ATTEND<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Accessibility<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Live transcription and ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email any additional access needs to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:skreitzb@barnard.edu\">skreitzb@barnard.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This event is free and open to all.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/how-to-go-mad-without-losing-your-mind-tickets-168633000845\">RSVP here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Speakers\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>La Marr Jurelle Bruce<\/strong> is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Duke 2021).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Farah Jasmine Griffin<\/strong> is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies and Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who Set You Flowin?: The African American Migration Narrative<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Oxford, 1995), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford Connecticut, 1854-1868<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If You Can\u2019t Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Free Press,\u00a0 2001) and co-author, with Salim Washington, of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clawing At the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz\u00a0 Collaboration Ever<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Thomas Dunne, 2008). Her most recent book is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, published by Basic Books in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Marr Jurelle Bruce, author of How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity, will be joined in conversation by Farah Jasmine Griffin.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7205,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-7194","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}