Think Piece: Oku’s Sounds: Anthony Braxton and Musical Improvisation in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For
Read the latest Think Piece in our Research Library, Oku’s Sounds: Anthony Braxton and Musical Improvisation in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For, by IICSI Graduate Research Assistant, Brian J. Lefresne.
Improvised music plays an important role in Dionne Brand’s 2005 novel What We All Long For, which tells the intertwined story of four ethnically and racially diverse twenty-somethings living in downtown Toronto.
In this Think Piece, Lefrense details how the musical practices of one of the four protagonists Oku, a second-generation Caribbean-Canadian, projects his “politics of being” through a personally curated soundtrack.
