THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF A GEOGRAPHY OF THE COMMONS. JAZZ AND THE INVENTION OF AFRICA
This research focuses on a key epoch in which an essential articulation between history, geography, politics and music allowed for a short time a radical opening of invention and emancipation. The 1960s not only deconstructed the conservative ideologies of the previous decades, but through such a su...
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Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
2022-05-01
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| description | This research focuses on a key epoch in which an essential articulation between history, geography, politics and music allowed for a short time a radical opening of invention and emancipation. The 1960s not only deconstructed the conservative ideologies of the previous decades, but through such a subtraction made possible a different discourse about universalism and about the commons. My investigation connects political events (like the independence of some African states or the fight for racial and social justice) to musical events (like free jazz) in order to advance the hypothesis not only of a potential history (a concept already defined by Ariella Azoulay in 2019), but also of a potential geography. Such a geography represented an opening that allowed the imagination of an authentic existence of the commons, a dimension that seems now to have been lost, but that would be and is worth re-enacting. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eddb9b0be11d403eb7ebf129aa8607e72023-06-14T07:41:23ZengBabes-Bolyai University, Cluj-NapocaTerritorial Identity and Development2537-48502022-05-0171375410.23740/TID120223THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF A GEOGRAPHY OF THE COMMONS. JAZZ AND THE INVENTION OF AFRICAHorea POENAR0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6090-8841Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIAThis research focuses on a key epoch in which an essential articulation between history, geography, politics and music allowed for a short time a radical opening of invention and emancipation. The 1960s not only deconstructed the conservative ideologies of the previous decades, but through such a subtraction made possible a different discourse about universalism and about the commons. My investigation connects political events (like the independence of some African states or the fight for racial and social justice) to musical events (like free jazz) in order to advance the hypothesis not only of a potential history (a concept already defined by Ariella Azoulay in 2019), but also of a potential geography. Such a geography represented an opening that allowed the imagination of an authentic existence of the commons, a dimension that seems now to have been lost, but that would be and is worth re-enacting. http://territorial-identity.ro/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/3_Poenar_TID_1_2022.pdfpotential geographymusical geographycommonsinventionjazz |
| spellingShingle | Horea POENAR THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF A GEOGRAPHY OF THE COMMONS. JAZZ AND THE INVENTION OF AFRICA Territorial Identity and Development potential geography musical geography commons invention jazz |
| title | THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF A GEOGRAPHY OF THE COMMONS. JAZZ AND THE INVENTION OF AFRICA |
| title_full | THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF A GEOGRAPHY OF THE COMMONS. JAZZ AND THE INVENTION OF AFRICA |
| title_fullStr | THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF A GEOGRAPHY OF THE COMMONS. JAZZ AND THE INVENTION OF AFRICA |
| title_full_unstemmed | THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF A GEOGRAPHY OF THE COMMONS. JAZZ AND THE INVENTION OF AFRICA |
| title_short | THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF A GEOGRAPHY OF THE COMMONS. JAZZ AND THE INVENTION OF AFRICA |
| title_sort | short happy life of a geography of the commons jazz and the invention of africa |
| topic | potential geography musical geography commons invention jazz |
| url | http://territorial-identity.ro/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/3_Poenar_TID_1_2022.pdf |
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