Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Arts (MA)
Major/Program
English
First Advisor's Name
Martha Schoolman
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Chair
Second Advisor's Name
Nathaniel Cadle
Second Advisor's Committee Title
Committee member
Third Advisor's Name
Heather Russell
Third Advisor's Committee Title
Committee member
Fourth Advisor's Name
Ana Luszczynska
Fourth Advisor's Committee Title
Committee member
Keywords
Jazz, Baraka, Archive, Derrida, Coltrane, Armstrong, Saxophone, Listening, Sound
Date of Defense
3-26-2019
Abstract
This thesis examines what an Audience-Centered Archive could look like, and the advantages of opening up the spaces of archival scholarship in connection with studies focused on Jazz. This thesis will explore how inherently self-limiting are traditional structures of the Archive, with the contradictory nature of Jazz Archives brought to the forefront: to archive a music like Jazz necessarily entails losing what makes it so special, losing the improvisational facet of Jazz. This thesis draws from sound studies and performance studies, along with a focus on the recording technologies that entail differences in interpretation and American history. This focus of interdisciplinary, intertextual manners informing different steps of confronting the contradictions of Jazz Archives. I focused on the lack of traditional, institutionally legitimate Jazz Archives of John Coltrane, and where the Audience-Centered Archive can create a more open-ended space of archival scholarship.
Identifier
FIDC007675
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5036-9901
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Santos, Ismael, "Leaving a Little Heaven Behind with Coltrane, or: The Performance is the Archive" (2019). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4008.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/4008
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