New Jazz Conceptions: History, Theory, Practice

ISBN-13: 9780367886769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 210 str.

Roger Fagge; Nicolas Pillai

Opis

This collection builds on recent studies by considering the production, reception, adaptation and survival of jazz. An interdisciplinary group of contributors break down the traditional barriers between historians, theorists and practitioners casting new light on the economic and cultural processes that shape the music.

Spis treści

Table of Contents

Introduction – Roger Fagge and Nicolas Pillai

1. Duke Ellington, the meaning of jazz and the BBC in the 1930s – Tim Wall

2. Making scenes: social media and new conceptions of jazz communities – Tom Sykes

3. Protection and internationalism: The British Musicians’ Union and restrictions on

foreign musicians – Andrew Hodgetts

4. Brubeck betwixt and between: television, pop and the middlebrow – Nicolas Pillai

5. Duke Ellington’s Newport Up! Liveness, Artifacts, and the Seductive Menace of Jazz Revisited – Katherine Williams

6. Everybody Digs Modern Jazz... Don’t They? – Adrian Litvinoff

7. ‘One of the most remarkable cultural phenomena of our century’: Larkin, Hobsbawm and Amis on Jazz – Roger Fagge

8. This Is Our Music?: Tradition, community and musical identity in contemporary British jazz – Mike Fletcher

9. A Time For Jazz: Narrative and History in Alan Lomax’s Mister Jelly Roll – Nicholas Gebhardt

O autorze

Roger Fagge is an Associate Professor in History at the University of Warwick, UK.

Nicolas Pillai is a Research Fellow at Birmingham City University, UK.