The Creak of Categories
Nathaniel Mackey's Strick: Song of the Andoumboulou 16-25
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3328693 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Quinn, R A Quinn (0000-0002-4692-5960, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 608-620 |
| Publication date | 2000-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Callaloo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-2492 • E-ISSN: 1080-6512 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cal.2000.0103 |
| OpenAlex | W2008540843 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
Nathaniel Mackey's intermedia play on Strick: Song of the Andoumboulou 16-25 compels us to rethink much of what we know about music, language, sound, and poetry. Strick is a text-recording of boundless hybridity, a cross-fertilization of jazz and poetry which opens cognitive hatches to a world where conceptual dualisms (I/they, meaning/nonmeaning, sense/nonsense) disintegrate before the fertile power of that which rationality excludes. Linking his project to the work of Federico García Lorca and Lorca's invocation of cante jondo (deep song), Mackey enacts a specific recitation of cante jondo in order to trace the ineffable in poetic/musical practices. In both Mackey and Lorca, one finds "an espousal of not only cross-cultural but intermedia fertilization and provocation," the appearance of a collective, polyphonic presence ("Cante Moro" 71). In Strick, this presence appears not as a product, but as a process of improvisation, or what I will call an "aural oscillation" between the dualisms of word and note, poetry and jazz. In this sense, Strick operates simultaneously as a critique of exclusionary tendencies and a positive project bringing the once expelled back into a shared history
Art · Art history · Epistemology · Hybridity · Jazz · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2002 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |