• The Clearing / JJJJJerome Ellis
The Clearing / JJJJJerome Ellis The Clearing / JJJJJerome Ellis

The Clearing / JJJJJerome Ellis

Books


FA.SA2.2522
xi, 97 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 33 cm
2021
JJJJJerome Ellis
Wendy's Subway
music, speech
Softcover with removable dust jacket. Edition of 1,000. 

"JJJJJerome Ellis’s The Clearing asks how stuttering, blackness, and music can be practices of refusal against hegemonic governance of time, speech, and encounter. Taking his glottal block stutter as a point of departure, Ellis figures the aporia and the block as clearing to consider how dysfluency, opacity, and refusal can open a new space for relation. Stemming from Ellis's essay "The clearing: Music, dysfluency, Blackness, and time,” published in 2020 in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies (Volume 5, Issue 2) the present volume transcribes and translates his investigation across genres and media, turning to the page to ask: How can a book bear the trace of music, and the racialized, disabled body? Can a book be not just a manuscript, but a glottoscript? Ellis opens space for thinking liberation theoretically, historically, and lyrically.

This book is released in tandem with an album co-produced by Northern Spy / NNA Tapes and The Poetry Project." -- http://wendyssubway.com/publishing/titles/the-clearing

"The Clearing is a transcription of an album of the same title. The album was commissioned by the Poetry Project and co-produced by Northern Spy / NNA Tapes. Each chapter corresponds to a track on the album, and each page corresponds to sixty seconds. The roman text corresponds to the spoken and sung "lyrics" of the album. The italic texts ... is a description of the audio. My stutters--my clearings--are rendered in real time on the page"--page xi