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The Evolution of Jazz in Britain, 1880-1935 (Paperback)
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The Evolution of Jazz in Britain, 1880-1935 (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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As a popular music, the evolution of jazz is tied to the
contemporary sociological situation. Jazz was brought from America
into a very different environment in Britain and resulted in the
establishment of parallel worlds of jazz by the end of the 1920s:
within the realms of institutionalized culture and within the
subversive underworld. Tackley (nee Parsonage) demonstrates the
importance of image and racial stereotyping in shaping perceptions
of jazz, and leads to the significant conclusion that the evolution
of jazz in Britain was so much more than merely an extension or
reflection of that in America. The book examines the cultural and
musical antecedents of the genre, including minstrel shows and
black musical theatre, within the context of musical life in
Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Tackley is particularly concerned with the public perception of
jazz in Britain and provides close analysis of the early European
critical writing on the subject. The processes through which an
evolution took place are considered by looking at the methods of
introducing jazz in Britain, through imported revue shows, sheet
music, and visits by American musicians. Subsequent developments
are analysed through the consideration of modernism and the Jazz
Age as theoretical constructs and through the detailed study of
dance music on the BBC and jazz in the underworld of London. The
book concludes in the 1930s by which time the availability of
records enabled the spread of 'hot' music, affecting the live
repertoire in Britain. Tackley therefore sheds entirely new light
on the development of jazz in Britain, and provides a deep social
and cultural understanding of the early history of the genre.
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