Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Biographic Data
| ID | 411738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tsitsi Ella Jaji |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tsitsi Ella |
| FAMILY NAME | Jaji |
| SIGNATURE | JAJI T E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Within Earshot of Africa-Meditations on The Sound of Culture
This essay takes its cue from Louis Chude-Sokei’s The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics. Chude-Sokei’s specific Caribbean matrix of technologically oriented poetics of the human is extended to African and African American texts, illustrating how blackness registers across distinctive histories. Following Chude-Sokei’s engagement with Sylvia Wynter, the essay begins with the centrality of women’s engagements with technologies for …
“Soul to Soul”
Drawing on the metaphor of echo-location, this chapter considers the ‘Black Atlantic’ as constituted by the historical and memorializing narratives of the Middle Passage. The chapter discusses how Aidoo, Anyidoho and.Opoku-Agyemang engage with African Americans residing in/visiting Ghana and address traumatic legacies of slavery. The chapter compares the vision of diaspora in work by these Ghanaian writers with the documentary of Soul to Soul, a …
Pirates Choice
The sixth chapter shows how new technologies have given rise to a set of practices that pirate, informalize and distribute the sonic archives of transnational black solidarity traced throughout the book, potentially opening participation in pan-African imaginaries to new subjects. Beginning by examining pirated audio technologies in two Senegalese films, Camp de Thiaroye (1987) and Ça Twiste àò Poponguine (1992), the chapter notes how nostalgic e…
Négritude Musicology
This chapter integrates a close reading of Léopold Sédar Senghor’s writings on jazz with a study of the 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts, which Senghor envisioned as an actualization of negritude and what he called “the black soul.” Beginning with his earliest speeches in the 1930s, the chapter shows that the recurrent metaphors of jazz in his work reveal a transnational dimension to Senghorian nègritude sometimes eclipsed by his traditionalism.…
Africa in Stereo
In Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity, Tsitsi Ella Jaji explores the complex relationship between musical modernism and Pan-Africanism in the twentieth century. Challenging the conventional narrative of modernism as a primarily Euro-American phenomenon, Jaji argues that African and diasporic artists engaged with modernist aesthetics to forge new sonic expressions of black identity and political consciousness. The book …
Document for U.S. Citizens Who Have Never Applied for a Visa and Have Just About Had It with These Aliens Who Go On and On about Some Letter; Deep English; and Autumn Leaves (3 Poems)
InTensions is an interdisciplinary peer reviewed e-journal published biannually out of Fine Arts Cultural Studies at York University. This initiative brings together interventions by scholars and artists whose work deals with the theatricality of power, corporealities of structural violence, and sensory regimes.
Africa in Stereo
In Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity, Tsitsi Ella Jaji explores the complex relationship between musical modernism and Pan-Africanism in the twentieth century. Challenging the conventional narrative of modernism as a primarily Euro-American phenomenon, Jaji argues that African and diasporic artists engaged with modernist aesthetics to forge new sonic expressions of black identity and political consciousness. The book …
Document for U.S. Citizens Who Have Never Applied for a Visa and Have Just About Had It with These Aliens Who Go On and On about Some Letter; Deep English; and Autumn Leaves (3 Poems)
InTensions is an interdisciplinary peer reviewed e-journal published biannually out of Fine Arts Cultural Studies at York University. This initiative brings together interventions by scholars and artists whose work deals with the theatricality of power, corporealities of structural violence, and sensory regimes.
“Soul to Soul”
Drawing on the metaphor of echo-location, this chapter considers the ‘Black Atlantic’ as constituted by the historical and memorializing narratives of the Middle Passage. The chapter discusses how Aidoo, Anyidoho and.Opoku-Agyemang engage with African Americans residing in/visiting Ghana and address traumatic legacies of slavery. The chapter compares the vision of diaspora in work by these Ghanaian writers with the documentary of Soul to Soul, a …
Pirates Choice
The sixth chapter shows how new technologies have given rise to a set of practices that pirate, informalize and distribute the sonic archives of transnational black solidarity traced throughout the book, potentially opening participation in pan-African imaginaries to new subjects. Beginning by examining pirated audio technologies in two Senegalese films, Camp de Thiaroye (1987) and Ça Twiste àò Poponguine (1992), the chapter notes how nostalgic e…
Négritude Musicology
This chapter integrates a close reading of Léopold Sédar Senghor’s writings on jazz with a study of the 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts, which Senghor envisioned as an actualization of negritude and what he called “the black soul.” Beginning with his earliest speeches in the 1930s, the chapter shows that the recurrent metaphors of jazz in his work reveal a transnational dimension to Senghorian nègritude sometimes eclipsed by his traditionalism.…
Africa in Stereo
In Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity, Tsitsi Ella Jaji explores the complex relationship between musical modernism and Pan-Africanism in the twentieth century. Challenging the conventional narrative of modernism as a primarily Euro-American phenomenon, Jaji argues that African and diasporic artists engaged with modernist aesthetics to forge new sonic expressions of black identity and political consciousness. The book …
Within Earshot of Africa-Meditations on The Sound of Culture
This essay takes its cue from Louis Chude-Sokei’s The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics. Chude-Sokei’s specific Caribbean matrix of technologically oriented poetics of the human is extended to African and African American texts, illustrating how blackness registers across distinctive histories. Following Chude-Sokei’s engagement with Sylvia Wynter, the essay begins with the centrality of women’s engagements with technologies for …
Art (6 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works)