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Brothers in Sound: Koffi Kwahulé and Jazz (Interviews with Gilles Mouëllic)
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 48, Number 3, Fall 2008
- pp. 97-108
- 10.1353/esp.0.0018
- Article
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Ivoirian playwright Koffi Kwahulé and French musicologist Gilles Mouëllic discuss how Kwahulé uses jazz to inspire and structure his plays and to seek an audience primed to listen. The violent absence at the core of jazz, the music of people torn from their home, captures for Kwahulé the modern plight of fragmented humanity.