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Harmony Holiday
Harmony Holiday is a poet, dancer, archivist, mythscientist and the author of Negro League Baseball (Fence, 2011), Go Find Your Father/ A Famous Blues (Ricochet 2014) and Hollywood Forever (Fence, 2015). She was the winner of the 2013 Ruth Lily Fellowship and she curates the Afrosonics archive, a collection of rare and out-of print-lps highlighting work that joins jazz and literature through collective improvisation.


“Inspection / at auction”

A Poem by Harmony Holiday
April 21, 2022  By Harmony Holiday
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A Dinner in France, 1973: Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, and a Very Young Henry Louis Gates, Jr

Harmony Holiday on the Public-Private Tensions of Black Life in America
March 11, 2021  By Harmony Holiday
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A Brief History of the Policing
of Black Music

Harmony Holiday Dreams of a Black Sound Unfettered
by White Desire
June 19, 2020  By Harmony Holiday
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Disappearing Archives: Sun Ra and Henry Dumas, Recorded in Conversation

Harmony Holiday on Jazz, Poetry, and a Rare Record of Mythic Black Friendship
June 10, 2019  By Harmony Holiday
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When LeRoi Jones Went on
The Merv Griffin Show

Introducing Harmony Holiday's Disappearing Archive Series
April 11, 2019  By Harmony Holiday
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The Sound of Black Voices, The Sound of My Father

Harmony Holiday on What It Means to Archive Your Memories
June 15, 2018  By Harmony Holiday
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How Hollywood Segregates Eternity

Harmony Holiday on the Misrepresented Layers of the Black Experience in the West
April 26, 2017  By Harmony Holiday
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The G closes in on a riot

Amiri Baraka's Poetics of Collective Listening
April 20, 2015  By Harmony Holiday
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