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Titlestad, Michael:
Making the Changes.
Jazz in South African Literature and Reportage.
Pretoria: University of South Africa Press / Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2004. 275 p.
ISBN 1-86888-291-8

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Staggering Modernity xi

One
At Play in the Machine: Improvisation and Narrative 1
The limits of maps 1
Walking in plain sight 3
Walking, speech acts and narrative 8
De Certeau’s aesthetic: The limits of pedestrian rhetoric 10
The anti-cartography of Deleuze and Guattari 13
Rhizomes and the Poetics of Relation 15
Roots and routes: The black Atlantic 17
Improvisation: Instrumental sound 18
Chordal implications: Jazz improvisation 20
Degrees of freedom: Total improvisation 24
Jazz in theoretical and literary writing 27
Playing the changes: Jazz in South African cities 29

Two
The Fabulous Decade: The Acoustics of Memory 31
The framework of citizenship 31
Metonomy, memory and loss 33
‘THINGS ARE UPSIDE DOWN!’: ‘Nice-time’ as ontology 38
‘Penny whistle is big-time now’ 48
‘Swinging like a pendulum’: The case of ‘Matshikese’ 50
An interlude: ‘Music full of dust’ 58
Duke Ellington: ‘A fellow coming across the veld’ 59
Stratification arid difference 64

Solo 1 Dugmore Boetie and Vagrant Improvisation 67

Three
A World of Strangers:
Jazz and Alterity in White Writing 77
Not-here, not-now 77
African Jazz and Variety: The ethnography of performance  82
Introducing King Kong 85
– King Kong and the ‘naturelle’ 87
– King Kong meets Die Burger 92
– King Kong and the ‘real Africa’ 96
– King Kong versus the police 99
– King Kong: Politics, ‘kultuur’ and the discontented ‘darkies’ 100
The aura of authenticity: The white ‘shimmer’ in literature 104
Exporting authenticity: A ‘new thing’ out of Africa 108
Alibis and authenticity: The imaginary nowhere, nowhen 111

Solo 2 ‘a boogie-woogie a slant’:
The Improvisations of Wopko Jensma 112

Four
Lives Seen in Parenthesis:
The Jazz Poetics of Exile 124
Strangerhood and exilic tactics 124
‘These are not the drums of Sekoting’:
Music and exile in The Wanderers 128
‘Are you there, bra?’ The politics of homemaking 131
Mandla Langa: The ‘sounds with which I couldn’t identify’ 134
The undomesticated, the homesick and the nervous system 139
Exile and the poetics of identification 145
Coda: ‘The plane’s wing […] obstructing my bird’s-eye view’ 154

Solo 3 ‘I Was Not Yet Myself’:
Representations of Kippie ‘Charlie Parker’ Moeketsi 156
Coda 163

Five
Blackness echoes the real blues:
Jazz, dissonance and resistance 165
On the thread of a tune 166
Yakhal ‘inkomo and Jol’iinkomo:
Dissonance and critical disorder 171
The blues, suffering and the semiotic 183
Naming, memory and the heavenly ensemble 190
Mongane Serote: To Every Birth Its Blood:
The limits of improvisation 194

Six
‘reprobate seers & hip healers’:
Jazz and Shamanic Poetics 202
Shamanism and the creaking of the word 202
Songlines, reclamation and healing in Ndebele’s ‘Uncle’ 208
Zim Ngqawana and Lefifi Tladi: Ingoma and Alphabet of Fire 213
We don’t play Wimpy music: Ari Sitas’s Kassababe 218
earthstepper/the ocean is very shallow:
The vision of Seitlhamo Motsapi 222
Shamanism: Alchemising and mending 228

Solo 4 Water from an Ancient Well:
Abdullah Ibrahim as Pilgrim and Healer 229

Conclusion: Making the changes 240

Notes 246
References 261
Selected Discography 271
Index 272

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