Paul Watkins is a Professor of English at Vancouver Island University. He is also a research team member with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI). He has published widely on multiculturalism, hip-hop, Canadian poetry, jazz, DJ culture, and improvisation. Under his DJ alias, DJ Techné, he has completed several DJ projects that explore the spaces between poetry, hip-hop, and jazz.

• PreludeIntroductionCoda: Dialogue and DissonanceChapter 1: Resounding the Past: Music, Listening, and Multicultural CitizenshipChapter 2: Blues Vernacular and “Harmonious Dissonance” in George Elliott Clarke’s Colouring Pentateuch: Blue, Black, Red, Gold, and WhiteChapter 3: Listening to a Listening: The Disruptive Jazz Poetics of Dionne Brand’s Ossuaries and The Blue Clerk (A Call Toward Freedom)Chapter 4: Dub Poetics and Improvised Chant in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!Chapter 5: Wavin’ The Multicultural Flag: Canadian Hip Hop and Global Citizenship in K’naan’s musicChapter 6: Recovery And Remix: Wayde Compton’s Turntable PoeticsOutro: The New Black Can(Aan)Lit And The Community To Come

Paul Watkins is a Professor of English at Vancouver Island University. He is also a research team member with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI). He has published widely on multiculturalism, hip-hop, Canadian poetry, jazz, DJ culture, and improvisation. Under his DJ alias, DJ Techné, he has completed several DJ projects that explore the spaces between poetry, hip-hop, and jazz.

• PreludeIntroductionCoda: Dialogue and DissonanceChapter 1: Resounding the Past: Music, Listening, and Multicultural CitizenshipChapter 2: Blues Vernacular and “Harmonious Dissonance” in George Elliott Clarke’s Colouring Pentateuch: Blue, Black, Red, Gold, and WhiteChapter 3: Listening to a Listening: The Disruptive Jazz Poetics of Dionne Brand’s Ossuaries and The Blue Clerk (A Call Toward Freedom)Chapter 4: Dub Poetics and Improvised Chant in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!Chapter 5: Wavin’ The Multicultural Flag: Canadian Hip Hop and Global Citizenship in K’naan’s musicChapter 6: Recovery And Remix: Wayde Compton’s Turntable PoeticsOutro: The New Black Can(Aan)Lit And The Community To Come