Full Description
Black British musicians have been making jazz since around 1920 when the genre first arrived in Britain. This groundbreaking book reveals their hidden history and major contribution to the development of jazz in the UK. More than this, though, the chapters show the importance of black British jazz in terms of musical hybridity and the cultural significance of race. Decades before Steel Pulse, Soul II Soul, or Dizzee Rascal pushed their way into the mainstream, black British musicians were playing jazz in venues up and down the country from dance halls to tiny clubs. In an important sense, then, black British jazz demonstrates the crucial importance of musical migration in the musical history of the nation, and the links between popular and avant-garde forms. But the volume also provides a case study in how music of the African diaspora reverberates around the world, beyond the shores of the USA - the engine-house of global black music. As such it will engage scholars of music and cultural studies not only in Britain, but across the world.
Contents
Chapter 1 Another Place, Another Race? Thinking through Jazz, Ethnicity and Diaspora in Britain, JasonToynbee, CatherineTackley, MarkDoffman; Part 1 Routes; Chapter 2 Towards a Black British Jazz, HowardRye; Chapter 3 Tiger Bay and the Roots/Routes of Black British Jazz, CatherineTackley; Chapter 4 Is Reggae to Black British Music as Blues is to Jazz? Caribbean Roots/Routes in Imaginings of Black British Jazz, KennethBilby; Part 2 Ownership; Chapter 5 Race, Consecration and the 'Music Outside'? The making of the British Jazz Avant-Garde, MarkBanks, JasonToynbee; Chapter 6 'What you doin' here?' The Sounds, Sensibilities and Belonging(s) of Black British Jazz Musicians, MarkDoffman; Chapter 7 Soweto's War, Justin A.Williams; Part 3 Performance; Chapter 8 Winifred Atwell and Her 'Other Piano', GeorgeMcKay; Chapter 9 Camping It Up: Jazz's Modernity, Reginald Foresythe, Theodor Adorno and the Black Atlantic, GeorgeBurrows; Chapter 10 Standard, Advantage, and Race in British Discourse about Jazz, ByronDueck;
