McKay Circular Breathing

The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8728-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

An exploration of the political and cultural experience of jazz performers in Britain from the 1950s “traditional jazz boom” on.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McKay, George

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Jazz, Europe, Americanization 1

1. New Orleans Jazz, Protest (Aldermaston), and Carnival (Beaulieu) 45

2. Whiteness and (British) Jazz 87

3. Jazz of the Black Atlantic and the Commonwealth 129

4. The Politics and Performance of Improvisation and Contemporary Jazz in the 1960s and 1970s 191

5. From "Male Music" to Feminist Improvising 243

Conclusion 297

Notes 305

Bibliography 333

Index 349

Über Autor(innen)

George McKay is a professor of cultural studies at the University of Salford in England. He is the author of Glastonbury: A Very English Fair and Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance since the Sixties; the editor of DiY Culture: Party & Protest in Nineties Britain; and a coeditor of Community Music: A Handbook and Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Political Protest.