Jessie Cox is Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University.

• Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction. Black Swiss  11. Interstitial Listenings I: Charles Uzor’s Bodycam Exhibit 3, Part I  172. Blackness and Black Lives in Switzerland  333. Interstitial Listenings II: Blurring the Hold  594. Afrofuturist Archeology: Citizenship and the Delimitation of Life with Death  715. Interstitial Listenings III: Black Music behind the Wormhole  916. Mothership Connections  1017. Interstitial Listenings IV: 8’46” George Floyd in Memoriam and White Gaze II Black Square  1218. Listening with Black Switzerland  1379. Interstitial Listenings V: Charles Uzor’s Bodycam Exhibit 3, Part II  15910. Black Life / Schwarz-Sein  167Conclusion. Alongside a Chorus of Voices  187Postface. Endless Endlessness  197Notes  203Bibliography  225Index

“Interspersing interstitial events of detailed listening with theoretical formulations derived from that listening, Jessie Cox teaches us about the specificities and varieties of Black life in Switzerland. He notes the fateful and fatal commonalities, particularly those that concern not just the problematic of identity but also the various forms of resistant survival that are given as refusals to identity. An extraordinary provocation and inspiration, Sounds of Black Switzerland prompts ecstatic responses and overwhelming questions.” - Fred Moten, author of (Black and Blur) “Jessie Cox crucially notes the importance of musical discourses, interdisciplinary modes of knowledge production, and storytelling for the communal ontologies of Black life in diaspora in Switzerland and beyond. He takes aspects habitually overlooked by mainstream knowledges and transforms them into Black diasporic critical instruments. Redrawing the critical maps of the relationship between contemporary Black Switzerland and sonic performance, this lucidly argued, theoretically sophisticated, and timely book will make an immediate contribution to Black diaspora studies, European studies, sound studies, and cultural studies.” - Alexander Ghedi Weheliye, author of (Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology)