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WHEN JAZZ BROKE OPERA: SOUND AND MYTH IN …(IPHIGENIA)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 January 2024
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As an anthropologist, I am no stranger to the importance of myth to both meaning-making and as connective tissue with ancestral forms of knowledge. Claude Levi-Strauss is synonymous with the study of myth in twentieth-century anthropology. Zora Neale Hurston, however, has only recently been reclaimed by the discipline of anthropology, even though she was both a student of Franz Boas—the so-called ‘father’ of American anthropology—and she conducted tireless ethnographic research in the US South and Caribbean for over forty years, focused on what she preferred to call folklore, or lies. Hurston is an important lens through which to interpret …(Iphigenia) because Hurston's corpus catalogues the mythocentrism of African American and African diasporic culture. She created a mind-bendingly prolific body of both fiction and non-fiction work centered on myth and provides an important context for the connections being drawn in this opera between jazz and Greek tragedy: that of sound.
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- Research Article
- Information
- Ramus , Volume 52 , Special Issue 1: Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding's …(Iphigenia): Interdisciplinary Approaches , June 2023 , pp. 45 - 49
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- Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press
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