Final Presentation Take 2
Transcript of Final Presentation Take 2
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Dissection of Toni Morrison’s Jazz
The importance of tracking and tracing
By:
Catherine Parsley
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Tracking and Tracing in Jazz
• Joe’s last name- Trace
• Hunter’s Hunter- tracking in the country
• Joe’s search for Dorcas- tracking in the city
• Joe had to track Dorcas down but simply found Violet– Dorcas is like Wild- difference between
country and city again
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Beginnings
• I first noticed the theme of tracking on page 130 in this passage:– Toni Morrison’s reading of Jazz
Audio 1
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Page 130 in Jazz
Image 1
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What I noticed
• The first thing I noticed when I read this passage was the two different spellings of the same word– “hoofmarks” and “hoof marks”
• Is there supposed to be this difference?
• What does it mean?
• Can these questions be answered using Morrison’s reading of Jazz?
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Difference in sound
“hoofmarks” “hoof marks”
Do they sound different?
Audio 2 Audio 3
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Difference in looks
“hoofmarks” “hoof marks”
Do the audio waves look different?
Image 2 Image 3
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What’s the meaning?• I have concluded that the space has been put in for
emphasis– Morrison doesn’t use other techniques for emphasis, and if
the words are read differently, they mean slightly different things
• It is hard to use the audio version as a measuring stick– It can be considered its own literary form and not a
duplicate of the printed version– Vocal inflection can do the job for you when you are
listening, but the text needs a different cue for when it is read silently
• With the second use of the word, Morrison is stressing that Joe cannot live without the hoof marks because then he would not longer have a trail to keep him in check
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The
End
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Sources used in the projectPrimary Sources• Morrison, Toni. Jazz. New York: Vintage, 2004. Print.• Image 1- photograph of page 130 in Toni Morrison’s Jazz. Taken by
Catherine Parsley, 11-27-10.• Image 2- audio waves for “hoofmarks”. Taken from Audacity using a
screen grab, 11-23-10.• Image 3- audio waves for “hoof marks”. Taken from Audacity using a
screen grab, 11-23-10.• Audio 1- Toni Morrison reading Jazz, page 130. Edited from secondary
source by Catherine Parsley, 11-11-10.• Audio 2- “hoofmarks”. Edited from secondary source by Catherine
Parsley, 11-16-10.• Audio 3- “hoof marks”. Edited from secondary source by Catherine
Parsley, 11-16-10.
Secondary Sources• Morrison, Toni. Jazz. 1992. Read by Toni Morrison. Audiocassette.
Random House, 1992.