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2018
Volume 60, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0034-527X
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2348

Abstract

This article draws from a yearlong practitioner inquiry to explore solidarity and inspiration among Black and Latinx youth songwriters in a community-based music program. The inquiry builds upon scholarship and practice around solidarity across Black and Latinx youth through songwriting, performance, and multi-sensory practices. Theoretically, the study brings together a language of solidarity framework and the emergent, future-facing standpoint of the not-yet. Findings address the uneven access to racial knowledge between Black and Latinx, creative enclosures and how inspiration travels within and across these enclosures. Leveraging the not-yet, we discuss implications for embracing unevenness, non-linearity, and enclosures while theorizing a language of solidarity among Black and Latinx youth.

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