DOI: 10.5176/2382-5650_CCS18.108

Authors: Dennis Dworkin

Abstract:

I use Stuart Hall’s appearance on BBC’s Desert Island Discs to consider his lifelong connection to music, arguing that it is expressive of formative experiences in his life and work. A major component of this essay is an exploration of Hall’s admiration for the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis and a comparison between them. I also highlight The Popular Arts (1964), his most serious effort to analyze music and his first sustained consideration of popular culture. Read in conjunction with Hall’s posthumously published memoir, Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands (2017), Hall’s reflections on music chart the formation of a diasporic intellectual, important to understanding the development of cultural studies as a practice.

Keywords:cultural studies, Miles Davis, diaspora, Stuart Hall, Henry James, jazz, popular culture

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