Tag Archives: Miles Davis

Stuart Hall and vernacular modernity

Posted on February 14, 2014 by wcd2

February 14, 2014 The passing of Stuart Hall makes me go back to his seminal essay, “Negotiating Caribbean Identities,” where he talks about “vernacular modernity” as the “modernity of the blues, of gospel music, of hybrid black music in its … Continue reading →

Posted in African languages, African-American music, Americas, Auditory field, Caribbean literature, Contemporary novel, Igbo, indigenous communities, Music, Native American language | Tagged "Negotiating Caribbean Identities, Abenakis, Black Witch of Salem, I Tituba, Ibos, Jamaican maroons, Maine Woods, Maryse Condé, Miles Davis, Paule Marshall, Praisesong for the Widow, Stuart Hall, Thoreau | Leave a comment

Suzan-Lori Parks, Diane Paulus, Deidre Murray : Three Women Collaborating

Posted on October 9, 2013 by wcd2

October 9, 2014 It won the 2012 Tony for the best musical revival, but the New York Times didn’t much like it, missing Gershwin’s full operatic scores in this “thinned-out” and “heavily-cut” version. Having no deep connection to the original, … Continue reading →

Posted in adaptation, African-American music, collaboration, Contemporary literature, jazz | Tagged Another Country, Bill Kirchner, Billy Strayhorn, Derek Walcott, Diane Paulus, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, George Gershwin, Getting Mother's Body, Gil Evans, James Baldwin, Miles Davis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nelson Riddle, Paul Simon, Porgy and Bess, Suzan-Lori Parks, The Capeman, The Red Letter Plays, William Faulkner | Leave a comment

Jazz in Australia: Yusef Komunyakaa, Charlie Parker

Posted on May 22, 2012 by wcd2

May 22, 2012 I’m heading there later today, so I’ve been doing a bit of homework. Komunyakaa, of course: it’s so strange that I should be talking about his play adaptation of Gilgamesh at the University of Sydney, when there … Continue reading →

Posted in adaptation, Arts communities, Australia, collaboration, Comparative literature, contemporary poetry, Cuneiform, Educational institutions, epic, Ethnicity, Global South, Handwritten script, lyric, Media, Mesopotamia, Middle East, Music, Near Eastern poetry, peripheral networks, planet, print medium, Remediation, twentieth century art | Tagged " Charlie Parker, "Testimony, Austraiia, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Dexter Gordon, February in Sydney, Gilgamesh, jazz poetry anthology, Louis Armstrong, Mandy Sayer, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, Miles Davis, Sand Evans, Sydney Opera House, Thieves of Paradise, University of New Orleans, University of Sydney, Yusef Komunyakaa | 8 Comments