The founding hypothesis of the study is that creative writers translate jazz music and
performance into discourse by recourse to a number of figurative domains. These translations
map existential, anthropological and political spaces and situate jazz within these. The first
chapter concerns the representation of jazz in the construction of alterity, focussing on the
evocation of the Dionysian spirit of jazz, the parallels between jazz and Bahktin's carnival
and the strategic deployment of 'blackness' in configurations. The second chapter applies the
notion of 'existential integration' in tracing some of the fluid boundaries between the music,
the body of the instrument and the body of the performer in representations. The final
chapter looks at the contrary tendency: the representation of mystical transcendence in the
course of listening to or performing jazz. Underlying each of the three chapters is a concern
with the emergence and propagation of oppositional identities in jazz writing. / English Studies / M.A. (English)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/16209 |
| Date | 04 1900 |
| Creators | Titlestad, Michael Frank |
| Contributors | Rabinowitz, Ivan Arthur |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | 1 online resource (viii, 174 leaves) |
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