1. Blackness is... "Blackness is noise". Blackness is marked by noise. Blackness lives through noise. Blackness is the surplus of noise. The joyful noise of the Blackpentecostal aesthetics is "fundamentally a critique of the given world", a critique of the "coloniality of being/power/truth/freedom" - of 'History' or historicity, a system which has excluded and silenced Black bodies. The joyful noise is an act of refusal and the production of a state of refusal. 2. Sound & Movement "[Blackness] is color and exceeds the colorful" (Crawley 4 of the pdf) Blackness is always beyond itself, its defining characteristics, of what it produces - an abounding surplus of what it is and what it can and will be. Working in this vein of excess and surplus, brings us to understanding the breadth of the "joyful noise of the Blackpentecostal". In the same way that Blackness is and exceeds its color and the concept of ...