File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1998/postcolonial.9811, message 58


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


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