Making the Changes - Jazz in South African Literature and Reportage (Paperback)

Making the changes maps the representation of jazz music and the occasions of its performance in South African literature and reportage. Throughout its history, South African jazz has been formed from complex transactions with other black Atlantic cultures, identities and political possibilities. The tactics these transactions have entailed and their effects on the cultural imaginary in the appropriation and manipulation of the music's meaning by creative writers, biographers and journalists are traced. By considering how South African writers participate in the global symbolic flows of jazz discourse, what emerges is how local contingencies have been managed through elaborating a relational history that has meaningfully cut across the categories and hierarchies of colonial and apartheid ideology. Making the changes maps jazz discourse from the legendary elan vital of the Sophiatown writers, through the King Kong reportage and white writing, to the agonised poetics of exile. The study then considers the role of dissonance in resistance writing of the Soweto poets of the 1970s and the Staffrider generation of the 1980s. In the final chapter it traces the contemporary use of jazz in a poetics of healing. The chapters are divided by 'solos', each of which discusses either a particular writer's engagement with jazz or the representation of a specific musician.

General

Imprint:	Unisa Press
Country of origin:	South Africa
Series:	Imagined South Africa, 5
Release date:	December 2004
First published:	December 2004
Authors:	Michael Titlestad
Dimensions:	240 x 170 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	276
ISBN-13:	978-1-86888-291-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Interior design Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-86888-291-8
Barcode:	9781868882915

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