TY - JOUR AU - Redmond, Shana L. PY - 2017/04/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - “Sing About Me”: Social Media Memorial and Inventory Form JF - Current Musicology JA - CM VL - 0 IS - 99/100 SE - Articles DO - 10.7916/cm.v0i99/100.5343 UR - https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5343 SP - AB - <p><span style="left: 90px; top: 229.435px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.958137);">There is a catalog of names that haunt Black political imaginaries and </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 251.105px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.968633);">protest cultures; icons and leaders, family and strangers, whose names </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 272.775px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.926919);">are weighted as evidence in the long histories of and movements toward </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 294.445px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00719);">liberation. Each is spoken of individually at the moment of the crime and </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 316.115px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.970672);">meant to display a double burden of proof: the spectacularity of their </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 337.785px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.001);">particular demise as well as the quotidian nature of Black death. Violence </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 359.455px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.939325);">is the original connection tying them together—Sean, Sandra, Ezell, and </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 381.125px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01311);">Quintonio—but in the last few years they have a new relation, new com-</span><span style="left: 90px; top: 402.795px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00143);">munion, and a new life in sound.</span></p> ER -