THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF A GEOGRAPHY OF THE COMMONS. JAZZ AND THE INVENTION OF AFRICA
THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF A GEOGRAPHY OF THE COMMONS. JAZZ AND THE INVENTION OF AFRICA
Author(s): Horea PoenarSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Geography, Regional studies, Regional Geography, Applied Geography
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: potential geography; musical geography; commons, invention; jazz;
Summary/Abstract: 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.
Journal: Territorial Identity and Development
- Issue Year: 7/2022
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 37-54
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English