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" South African jazz and exile in the 1960s : "
Vos, Stephanie
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Latin Dissertation
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1103396
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TLets792532
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Vos, Stephanie
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South African jazz and exile in the 1960s :\ Vos, Stephanie
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Royal Holloway, University of London
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2016
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2016
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Ph.D.
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This thesis presents an inquiry into the discursive construction of South African exile in jazz practices during the 1960s. Focusing on the decade in which exile coalesced for the first generation of musicians who escaped the strictures of South Africa's apartheid regime, I argue that a lingering sense of connection (as opposed to rift) produces the contrapuntal awareness that Edward Said ascribes to exile. This thesis therefore advances a relational approach to the study of exile: drawing on archival research, music analysis, ethnography, critical theory and historiography, I suggest how musicians' sense of exile continuously emerged through a range of discourses that contributed to its meanings and connotations at different points in time. The first two chapters situate South African exile within broader contexts of displacement. I consider how exile built on earlier forms of migration in South Africa through the analyses of three 'train songs', and developed in dialogue with the African diaspora through a close reading of Edward Said's theorization of exile and Avtar Brah's theorization of diaspora. A case study of the Transcription Centre in London, which hosted the South African exiles Dorothy Masuku, Abdullah Ibrahim, and the Blue Notes in 1965, revisits the connection between exile and politics, broadening it beyond the usual national paradigm of apartheid politics to the international arena of Cold War politics. The final chapters present an extended case study of the South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim's early years of exile - a period that has received little attention in music scholarship. I trace the notions of 'home' and 'exile' in the biography, musical thought and music practices of this iconic figure of South African exile. Finally, I argue that exile is a state that is always in flux, and theorize ambivalence as a key trope of exile.
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diaspora
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exile
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jazz
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South African music
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Royal Holloway, University of London
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