During the late 1970s and early 1980s, New York City was financially and socially bankrupt, but the art and music scene was flourishing. During these years, the downtown New York music scene – no wave, hip-hop, disco funk and club culture – shaped Jean-Michel Basquiat as both a musician and an artist. This catalog for a traveling exhibition explores how Basquiat’s painting has parallels in his music (sampling, cut-up, rapping), and takes a new look at his production as a writer and a poet in light of his connections with the then-emerging hip-hop culture. This beautifully illustrated exhibition catalog of rarely seen photographs and images sheds new light on Basquiat as a musician, exploring how his art and music are related, and how they reflect on his identity as a Black artist in the United States, the downtown New York music scene, and contemporary culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An exhibition catalog that explores the influence of the downtown New York music scene in the 1970s and ’80s on Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work as a musician and an artist.
FOREWORDS
\n008
\nBasquiat: Musician of Our Times
\nStephane Aquin
\n010
\nWhen the Eye Listens
\nMarie-Pauline Martin
\nPRELUDES
\n014
\nINTRODUCTION
\nSeeing Loud:
\nBasquiat and Music
\nMary-Dailey Desmarais (MDD)
\n032
\nMichael Holman
\nInterview: Mary-Dailey Desmarais
\nNEW YORK
\nBEATS
\n040
\nThe Urban Soundscape:
\nA Playlist in Remix
\nCarlo McCormick
\n052
\nGray Matters:
\nRambling Reminiscence of Basquiat
\nand His Orchestra
\nGlenn O’Brien
\n061
\n“Beat Bop”
\nVincent Bessieres
\n064
\nNicholas Taylor
\nInterview: Vincent Bessieres
\n090
\nTorrick “Toxic” Ablack
\nInterview: Vincent Bessieres
\nSEEING
\nSOUND
\n098
\nThe Sound of Basquiat
\nDieter Buchhart
\n122
\nAnna Domino
\nInterview: Vincent Bessieres
\n127
\nBasquiat’s Notebooks
\nMary-Dailey Desmarais
\n134
\nA Panel of Experts
\nMary-Dailey Desmarais
\n136
\nArto Lindsay
\nInterview: Vincent Bessieres
\nJAZZ
\n150
\nNow’s the Time
\nVincent Bessieres
\n152
\n“One Great Big Loudspeaker”:
\nJazz and Blues in the Work of Jean-Michel Basquiat
\nVincent Bessieres (VB)
\n190
\nGeorge Condo
\nInterview: Mary-Dailey Desmarais
\n196
\nBasquiat’s Boxes
\nVincent Bessieres
\nFROM HIP-HOP TO BLUES AND BEYOND
\n204
\nCut to the Bone:
\nThe Blackness of Basquiat’s
\nPerformative Line
\nKobena Mercer
\n220
\nLee Jaffe
\nInterview: Mary-Dailey Desmarais
\n222
\nSlave Auction
\nVincent Bessieres
\n224
\nBasquiat:
\nEroica
\nFranklin Sirmans
\n230
\nFab 5 Freddy
\nInterview: Franklin Sirmans
\n254
\nScores
\nJames Brandon Lewis
\nThomas Sayers Ellis
\n258
\nChronology:
\nIn Time with Basquiat
\n276
\nList of Illustrations
\n281
\nSuggested Readings and Doc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":35380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5523],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32805","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-edited-by-dieter-buchhart","8":"author-edited-by-mary-dailey-desmarais","9":"author-edited-by-vincent-bessieres","10":"publisher-editions-gallimard","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n