Contemporary South African Jazz and the Politics of Place
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3636342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nishlyn Ramanna (University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 112-127 |
| Publication date | 2004-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0253-3952 • E-ISSN: 1940-7874 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02533950408628687 |
| OpenAlex | W2044162401 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Drawing on popular music scholarship on music and place, as well as interviews with jazz musicians, scholars, and journalists active on the jazz scenes in Durban and Johannesburg, this article considers how locales are perceived to uniquely influence music-making. Extending Bakhtin's notion of “utterance” to music, it argues that the musical character of recent South African jazz subtly registers demographic, political, economic, and environmental specificities peculiar to contemporary Durban and Johannesburg. It is argued that contemporary South African jazz, as it is experienced by its performers and listeners, may be profitably conceptualised as speaker and addressee of locale
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Jazz · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Diverse Musicological Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |