Published In
M/C Journal
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
Subjects
Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011). Black wax -- Criticism and interpretation, Spoken word poetry -- United States, African Americans -- Civil rights
Abstract
The film opens in an unidentified wax museum. The camera pans from right to left, zooming in on key Black historical figures who have been memorialized in wax. W.E.B. Du Bois, Marian Anderson, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, and Duke Ellington stand out. The final wax figure, a Black man, sits with an empty card box in his right hand and a lit cigarette in his left. The film’s narrator appears: a slim, afroed Black man. He sits to the right of the figure. The only living person in a room full of bodies, he reaches over to grab the cigarette. To his inanimate companion he nonchalantly says “Oh. Thank you very much. Needed that” and ashes the cigarette...
Rights
Copyright (c) 2018 Derrais Carter 
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DOI
10.5204/mcj.1453
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/26961
Publisher
Queensland University of Technology
Citation Details
Carter, D. (2018). Black Wax (ing): On Gil Scott-Heron and the Walking Interlude. M/C Journal, 21(4).