Wayward lives and beautiful experiments

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Jazz Research Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI:10.1558/jazz.22895

Christopher J. Smith

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Abstract

Saidiya Hartman’s 2021 Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments literally re-imagines the experience of young black women in 1910s New York, employing a method Hartman calls ‘critical fabulation’, in which—rather in the form of retconned speculative fiction—she teases out gaps in the archival record. Employing Hartman’s own call-and-response technique of rhetorical questions which spotlight the uncertain answers to questions about minoritized human experience, I ask: ‘How did the “light-skinned chorines” in multi-racial 1930s nightclub and theater culture create spaces of “beautiful experiment” within their day-to-day? How did the “noisy” dance of jazz reinscribe—or subtly subvert—the white racist gaze? What did the chorines think about all this?’ This creative non-fiction essay imagines responses.

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任性的生活和美丽的实验

赛迪娅·哈特曼（Saidiya Hartman）的《2021任性的生活，美丽的实验》（2021 Wayward Lives，Beautiful Experiments）从字面上重新想象了1910年代纽约年轻黑人女性的经历，采用了一种哈特曼称之为“批判性虚构”的方法，在这种方法中，她以重述的推测小说的形式，调侃了档案记录中的空白。我运用哈特曼自己的修辞问题的呼唤和回应技巧，突出了关于少数民族人类经历的问题的不确定答案，我问道：“20世纪30年代多种族夜总会和剧院文化中的“浅色皮肤合唱团”是如何在日常生活中创造“美丽实验”的空间的？爵士乐的“喧闹”舞蹈是如何重新唤起——或者巧妙地颠覆——白人种族主义的凝视的？合唱团是怎么看待这一切的？”这篇富有创意的非虚构文章想象着回应。

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期刊介绍： Jazz Research Journal explores a range of cultural and critical views on jazz. The journal celebrates the diversity of approaches found in jazz scholarship and provides a forum for interaction and the cross-fertilisation of ideas. It is a development and extension of The Source: Challenging Jazz Criticism founded in 2004 at the Leeds College of Music. The journal aims to represent a range of disciplinary perspectives on jazz, from musicology to film studies, sociology to cultural studies, and offers a platform for new thinking on jazz. In this respect, the editors particularly welcome articles that challenge traditional approaches to jazz and encourage writings that engage with jazz as a discursive practice. Jazz Research Journal publishes original and innovative research that either extends the boundaries of jazz scholarship or explores themes which are central to a critical understanding of the music, including the politics of race and gender, the shifting cultural representation of jazz, and the complexity of canon formation and dissolution. In addition to articles, the journal features a reviews section that publishes critical articles on a variety of media, including recordings, film, books, educational products and multimedia publications.