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The Black Catatonic Scream
Harmony Holiday

A digital project, part of Two Ears and One Mouth
  • Harmony Holiday is a writer, dancer, and archivist. She’s the author of A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom (2019); Hollywood Forever (Fence Books, 2016); Go Find Your Father/A Famous Blues (Ricochet Editions, 2014); Negro League Baseball (Fence Books, 2011); and The Black Saint and the Sinnerman, an LP composed of sound and speech that assimilates Charles Mingus’s classic 1963 album. She runs Afrosonics, an archive of jazz and everyday diaspora poetics, and Mythscience, an imprint that reissues work from the archive. She is currently working on a book of poems called M a a f a and an accompanying collection of essays and memoirs, Reparations: Thieves Who Stole My Blue Days, as well as a biography of the jazz singer Abbey Lincoln. She has received the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts, and a fellowship from the Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Program.

“The Black Catatonic Scream” was published as part of Triple Canopy’s Immaterial Literature project area, which receives support from the Stolbun Collection, Agnes Gund, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Tags: Essay, Poetry, Sound
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  • Omniaudience, by Triple Canopy & Nikita Gale
  • Parts of Speech at MCA Chicago, by Triple Canopy & Public Fiction
  • On the Difficulties in Writing the Truth, by Hari Kunzru
  • On What We Owe, by Astra Taylor & Laura Hanna
  • On Similitude, by Steffani Jemison with Garrett Gray
  • On Onomatopoeia, by Tomeka Reid with Taylor Ho Bynum, Ugochi Nwaogwugwu & Mike Reed
  • On Labor and Management, by Julio Torres
  • On the Next Economy, by Christopher Kulendran Thomas
  • Parts of Speech
  • Rave, by Rainald Goetz
  • Stereomodernism, by DeForrest Brown, Jr.
  • Listening, by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
  • A Cinder Block Falling on Concrete, by Lawrence Abu Hamdan
  • The Black Catatonic Scream, by Harmony Holiday
  • LITTLE GIRLS, by Nikita Gale
  • Second Rate, by Jonathan Sterne & Mara Mills
  • Table of Visions, by Tashi Wada with Alexander Provan
  • Proyecto DATA, by Julia Weist & Nestor Siré
  • Proyecto DATA, by Julia Weist & Nestor Siré
  • Answers with Questions, by Gregg Bordowitz with Jasmine Nyende, Vivien Goldman, Joy Ladin, Kendall Thomas, Morgan Bassichis & The Illustrious Pearl
  • On the Letterform of the Age, by Bo-Won Keum
  • A Heavy Nonpresence, by Derica Shields
  • i have too much to hide, by Benjamin Krusling
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  • The Great Equalizer, by Alexander Provan
  • Omniaudience, by Triple Canopy & Nikita Gale
  • Parts of Speech at MCA Chicago, by Triple Canopy & Public Fiction
  • On the Difficulties in Writing the Truth, by Hari Kunzru
  • On What We Owe, by Astra Taylor & Laura Hanna
  • On Similitude, by Steffani Jemison with Garrett Gray
  • On Onomatopoeia, by Tomeka Reid with Taylor Ho Bynum, Ugochi Nwaogwugwu & Mike Reed
  • On Labor and Management, by Julio Torres
  • On the Next Economy, by Christopher Kulendran Thomas
  • Parts of Speech
  • Rave, by Rainald Goetz
  • Stereomodernism, by DeForrest Brown, Jr.
  • Listening, by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
  • A Cinder Block Falling on Concrete, by Lawrence Abu Hamdan
  • The Black Catatonic Scream, by Harmony Holiday
  • LITTLE GIRLS, by Nikita Gale
  • Second Rate, by Jonathan Sterne & Mara Mills
  • Table of Visions, by Tashi Wada with Alexander Provan
  • Proyecto DATA, by Julia Weist & Nestor Siré
  • Proyecto DATA, by Julia Weist & Nestor Siré
  • Answers with Questions, by Gregg Bordowitz with Jasmine Nyende, Vivien Goldman, Joy Ladin, Kendall Thomas, Morgan Bassichis & The Illustrious Pearl
  • On the Letterform of the Age, by Bo-Won Keum
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  • i have too much to hide, by Benjamin Krusling
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  • Video Documentation, by Meg Onli, Morgan Parker, Kameelah Janan Rasheed & Simone White
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  • My Existential Limits To the Rectification of Past Wrongs, by Tiona Nekkia McClodden Risk Pool
  • Black Hauntology, by Harmony Holiday & Ben Ratliff Omniaudience
  • Black Marks That Make up Letters, by Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Meg Onli, Morgan Parker, Kameelah Janan Rasheed & Simone White Corrected Slogans (A Publication in Four Acts)
  • Solitude, by Martine Syms The Long Tomorrow

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