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Zeal & Ardor and the Echo of Frantz Fanon: Music as Decolonial Revolt
Manage episode 514982367 series 3365331
In this solo episode, I dive into the electrifying intersection between Zeal & Ardor’s genre-bending music and Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary psychology of liberation.
I trace the origins of Zeal & Ardor — from Manuel Gagneux’s provocative “what-if” experiment blending slave spirituals and black metal — to their evolution into a powerful exploration of history, rage, and rebirth. Through Fanon’s lens, this fusion becomes more than music: it’s a sonic revolt, a reimagining of how trauma, faith, and resistance can transform into new cultural life.
Along the way, I unpack Fanon’s ideas about the “white mask,” violence as catharsis, and the creation of a new humanism, showing how Zeal & Ardor’s sound captures the psychic energy of decolonization.
This episode is part cultural analysis, part therapy session, and part love letter to the power of art to rework our deepest wounds.
243 episodes
Manage episode 514982367 series 3365331
In this solo episode, I dive into the electrifying intersection between Zeal & Ardor’s genre-bending music and Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary psychology of liberation.
I trace the origins of Zeal & Ardor — from Manuel Gagneux’s provocative “what-if” experiment blending slave spirituals and black metal — to their evolution into a powerful exploration of history, rage, and rebirth. Through Fanon’s lens, this fusion becomes more than music: it’s a sonic revolt, a reimagining of how trauma, faith, and resistance can transform into new cultural life.
Along the way, I unpack Fanon’s ideas about the “white mask,” violence as catharsis, and the creation of a new humanism, showing how Zeal & Ardor’s sound captures the psychic energy of decolonization.
This episode is part cultural analysis, part therapy session, and part love letter to the power of art to rework our deepest wounds.
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