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Music and food are bound up with place and articulations of liberation. Alongside their most precious belongings, people travel with recipes, the sounds of home, and the promise of new tomorrows. Lyrics help us trace the cultural markers of a place and a people.
This event, Pass the Peas, Music Migration, Ital Food, and a Black Sense of Place, is a live demonstration of the sound of Black food. Drawing on Katherine McKittrick’s notion of a “Black sense of place,” DJ and scholar Lynnée Denise takes us on an audio-visual journey through the movement of foodways in the lyrics of jazz, blues, reggae, and funk. This exploration connects migration routes and diasporic interconnectedness to how we hear, produce, and preserve taste traditions through music.
The Food Studies Program and Food and Social Justice Action Research (FJAR) Lab are proud to host this event as a part of the FJAR Lab’s “Understanding Food and Environmental Justice through Music” Initiative. The event is included in our fall 2025 event series “Food and Democracy,” supported in part by The New School’s university-wide strategic initiative on Democracy and Culture.
Presented by the Food Studies department within the Bachelor’s Program for Adults and Transfer Students at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts and the Food and Social Justice Action Research Lab at The New School.
Lynnée Denise, a global practitioner of sound, language, and Black Atlantic thought, is a writer and interdisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam and Johannesburg, originally from Los Angeles, California. Influenced by her parents’ record collection and the sonic experimentation of the 1980s, her work traces the migrations of music and the role of Black electronic traditions in the African Diaspora.
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Lynnée Denise, a global practitioner of sound, language, and Black Atlantic thought, is a writer and interdisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam and Johannesburg, originally from Los Angeles, California. Influenced by her parents’ record collection and the sonic experimentation of the 1980s, her work traces the migrations of music and the role of Black electronic traditions in the African Diaspora. In 2013, she coined the term DJ Scholarship to describe how knowledge is gathered, interpreted, and produced through a conceptual and theoretical framework, shifting the role of the DJ from party purveyor to archivist and cultural worker. A doctoral student in the Department of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London, Denise’s research explores how sound system culture creates a living archive for the Black queer diaspora.
