It must actually deal with the effects of those histories and dynamics on the cultures that perpetuated these elisions and remained seemingly inviolate in their wake" (Rogoff 2002:64).

Part of this willingness to accept the irreconcilabilities, elisions, and oddities that have traditionally been noted in discussions of Kelley-Hawkins as an African American author ensues, of course, from the very way that we read African American literature as always playing with, signifyin(g) on such matters, and the way they are complicated by the elisions that white society demands of the designated racial other.

Elisions, stretti, contractions, prolongations and antiphonal presentations are only some of the devices the composer frequently employs to achieve a pacing that clarifies the overall direction of the melodic trajectory of a piece.