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'The Meaning of the Blues': Questions of hermeneutics, community and meaning through a jazz suite for peace - Tim Boniface

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Jazz Spiritualities Term Card Trinity 2026

Part of the 'Jazz Spiritualities: The Natural Noise of Good' series

Wednesday, 10 June 2026, 5pm to 6.30pm

Psalter: Themes for Peace is one of a series of three jazz suites that explores scriptures on peace through instrumental composition and improvisation. I will use this work as a starting point to discuss questions around the ways sacred text is read and experienced in communities of faith, and questions around the relationship between music and meaning. What do we mean when we say ‘music speaks louder than words’? especially when that music is improvised jazz?

Speaker(s): Tim Boniface (University of Cambridge)

Series: Jazz Spiritualities: The Natural Noise of Good

Department: Regent's Park College (College)

Organiser: Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture

Host: Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture

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