Post-Doc, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies
Danish Research Council for the Humanities Post Doctoral Fellow
About
My research lies in the interstices between jazz studies, American studies, and cultural and literary theory.
In my research I point to jazz as a unique interdisciplinary prism, both in an American national and transnational context. Through this I investigate the way that narratives are formed around national and transnational identities and more importantly, how the interplay between these categories enables us to rethink them.
These thoughts have inspired my current research project, Jazz – A Cosmopolitan Vernacular: Transatlantic Narratives of Identity and Tradition. This seeks to investigate narratives of national and transnational identities in the context of the transatlantic jazz culture. As jazz continues to migrate across national, ethnic, and cultural borders, I wish to investigate how jazz and local music cultures interact and intermingle
The study will be based on case studies focusing on the jazz festival as a both a geographical and physical place, but also a more abstract symbolical space where national and transnational identities and claims of belonging are negotiated by locals and visiting jazz musicians.
Contact Information
http://www.artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk
Dr. Anne Dvinge
Department of Arts and Cultural Studies
University of Copenhagen
Karen Blixensvej 1
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
+45 3532 9263 (office)
