New Jazz Conceptions History, Theory, Practice

• Other Authors: Fagge, Roger (Editor), Pillai, Nicolas (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: LONDON Routledge 2017
• Edition: Document : English
• Series: Warwick series in the humanities
• Subjects: Jazz > History and criticism; Jazz > Social aspects; Jazz > Historiography
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New Jazz Conceptions: History, Theory, Practice is an edited collection that captures the cutting edge of British jazz studies in the early twenty-first century, highlighting the developing methodologies and growing interdisciplinary nature of the field. In particular, the collection breaks down bar...

Table of Contents:

• Duke Ellington, the meaning of jazz and the BBC in the 1930s / Tim Wall
• Making scenes : social media and new conceptions of jazz communities / Tom Sykes
• Protection and internationalism : the British Musicians' Union and restrictions on foreign musicians / Andrew Hodgetts
• Brubeck betwixt and between : television, pop and the middlebrow / Nicolas Pillai
• Duke Ellington's Newport Up! : liveness, artefacts and the seductive menace of jazz revisited / Katherine Williams
• Everybody digs modern jazz ... don't they? / Adrian Litvinoff
• "One of the most remarkable cultural phenomena of our century" : Larkin, Hobsbawm, and Amis on jazz / Roger Fagge
• This is our music? : tradition, community and musical identity in contemporary British jazz / Mike Fletcher
• A time for jazz : narrative and history in Alan Lomax's Mister Jelly Roll / Nicholas Gebhardt.