Aimée George

Aimée George is a South African jazz performer-scholar. Her doctoral project aims to examine to what extent contemporary South African jazz musicking (of all kinds, and featuring all its various constituents) acts as a dynamic site and tool through which post-apartheid configurations of Coloured identity. This research hopes to carve out a musical space for thinking through the borders and boundaries of post-apartheid Blackness, and notions of indigenous Africanity for “differently” Black South Africans at a time and in a country where colonialisms legacy and apartheids nefarious racial taxonomies and hierarchies are still very much felt.

Her research interests include migration stories of jazz in the Global South, constructions and representations of gender, expressions of Blackness and race within jazz practice and scholarship and questions of decoloniality within facets of jazz performance. She holds degrees from both the South African College of Music (BA Jazz Vocal Performance; MMUS) and Utrecht University (RMA Musicology).