![]() My heart is an infinite home, and I have room for you, too. When they tell you that you want too much, say “I was born for this. (Photo: RCA Records (eBayfrontback) Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) It’s not unusual for a classic tune to be reimagined. The dream of Frantz Fanon was not the replacement of one unjust power with another unjust power it was a revolutionary humanism, neither assimilationist nor supremacist, in which the Manichaean logic of dominant/submissive as it applies to people is finally and completely dismantled, and the right of every being to its dignity is recognized. Home / Entertainment / Music Dolly Parton’s Jolene Song Is Completely Transformed When Slowed to 33 RPM By Sara Barnes on SeptemDolly Parton in 1977, just several years after Jolene was a hit. Akanke is in these images-but so is Aldo. While this usually leads to some uncanny sounds, slowing down Dolly Parton’s Jolene to 33 RPM (revolutions per minute) creates a different, but awesome version of the track. But do we want to be masters-to behave like masters? To expect as they expect? To be as tranquil and entitled as they are? To claim as righteous our decision not to include them in our human considerations? Are we content that all our attacks on them be ad hominem, as they once spoke of us? If our first response to these portraits of black, female masters is some variation on #bowdownbitches or #girlboss, well, no one can deny the profound pleasures of role reversal, of the flipped script, but when we speak thus we must acknowledge that we can make no simultaneous claim to having put down the master’s tools. The effects are haunting and transform her voice into one that sounds unmistakably male. We know we don’t want to be victims of history. Dolly Parton’s classic song Jolene has been slowed down from 45 RPM to 33 RPM. How can such systems be dismantled? Surely, as Audre Lorde knew, it is not by using the master’s tools. In “A Countervailing Theory,” the habit of thought that recognizes some beings and ignores others is presented to us as an element of a physical landscape, the better to emphasize its all-encompassing nature….the system is ever present and felt, but not explicitly stated.
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