Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:29:05 +0200 From: MF Titlestad <TITLEMF-AT-alpha.unisa.ac.za> Subject: Jazz improvisation My current research concerns the representation of jazz improvisation in literary texts. I am particularly concerned with notions of emergent identities and the discourses of desire which are mobilised in such representations. A forthcoming project will be an investigation of South African jazz and its historiographies focusing on the intricacies of 'improvising histories'. I plan to continue, in the course of the research, a series of interviews with practising musicians and with cultural workers in this country (South Africa). The major theoretical inclinations that I am using derive from Kristeva (particularly her early work on semiotic irruptions and 'code-breaking'), Deleuze (a cute move which conflates the theatre of philosophy and the jazz stage), Bhabha (whose dense formulations of popular culture and diasporic identity are proving useful), Henry Louis Gates, Houston Baker, and various theorists of performativity and historiography. The reason for this prolonged account is that many concepts and discussions in the (vast) field of postcolonial and diasporic studies have proved very productive and I would like to talk to anyone involved in related or analogous fields of research. Thanks. Michael Titlestad Department of English University of South Africa --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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