Notes to Transition on the Wire Ep. 4: Collage in Black Art

James McNally’s “Conjured from Fragments”

DaMaris Hill’s “Shut Up In My Bones (remix)”

John Coltrane transforms “My Favorite Things.” Read about it in iconic essay by Henry Louis Gates Jr.: The “Blackness of Blackness: A Critique of the Sign and the Signifying Monkey.”

“The Art of Romare Bearden” by Ralph Ellison: Vol. 18, No. 4 (Winter, 1977), pp. 673-680, 1977, Massachusetts Review

Smith, Theophus H. Conjuring Culture: Biblical Formations of Black America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Krista Franklin’s Art: (A wider folio of Krista Franklin’s art appears in Transition 129)

Krista Franklin’s poetry

Ebony Patterson’s Art

Eduardo Navas’s Remix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling

Douglas Kearney’s performance of poem “Sho”