“The Mixtape as Maroon” – An Original #BlackEphemera Mix by Kwame Phillips

“The Mixtape as Maroon” – An Original #BlackEphemera Mix by Kwame Phillips

“What does it mean to think of Black ephemera—random, inconsequential Blackness—as fugitive archival matter, as marooned archives?” – Mark Anthony Neal

Soul Expressions 2.0 · “The Mixtape as Maroon” – An Original #BlackEphemera Mix by Kwame Phillips 
Professor Kwame Phillips is an anthropologist and filmmaker, specializing in visual and sensory media production, ethnographic documentary and soundscapes. Born in London and raised in Jamaica, he joined John Cabot's Department of Communications in the Fall of 2016. Professor Phillips has traveled all over the world teaching digital storytelling in underserved communities. He works with Filmmakers Without Borders, an organization "committed to leveraging the filmmaking process as a vehicle for promoting student empowerment and cross-cultural exchange in the developing world."

Tracklist

Maroon Abeng Player - Abeng Signaling Horn // Greg Tate Interlude
Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra - It's After The End Of The World
The Last Angel of History Interlude
Jimi Hendrix - 1983...(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain // Jovana Tankou Interlude
Jyoti & Georgia Anne Muldrow - Ancestral Duckets // Sojourner Interlude
Angel Bat Dawid - Destination (Dr. Yusef Lateef) // Daughters of the Dust Interlude
Angel Bat Dawid and Tha Brothahood - Destination
The Last Poets - In Time and Space
OutKast - Millenium
A Tribe Called Quest - The Space Program
Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra - I am the Alter-Destiny
Sault - Stop Dem
Scientist - De Materialize // Lee “Scratch” Perry Interlude
Space Afrika - Bly // Maroons of Jamaica Interlude
Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock
Erykah Badu - Dial’Afreaq
Laura Mvula ft. Nile Rodgers - Overcome
June Tyson - Theme of the Stargazers // Octavia Butler Interlude
Kamasi Washington - The Space Travelers Lullaby // Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Interlude
Jay Electronica ft. Jay-Z - The Neverending Story // Marcus Garvey Interlude
Maroon printing-man - Drum Language
Brother Ah - Transcendental March (Creation Song)
Moor Mother and billy woods (ft. Imani Robinson & Amirtha Kidambi) - Maroons
Flying Lotus - Intro / / A Cosmic Drama // Evelyn from the Internets Interlude
BLO - Chant to Mother Earth // Cauleen Smith Interlude
Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra - Space is the Place