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Unholy Row - Jazz in Britain and its Audience, 1945-1960 (Hardcover, New)
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Unholy Row - Jazz in Britain and its Audience, 1945-1960 (Hardcover, New)
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The post-war jazz revival marked the beginning of an independent
British youth culture with music as its focus. Although it always
remained a minority enthusiasm, jazz actually embodied the vaguely
felt sentiments, dissatisfactions and aspirations of the post-war
generation more fully than any other form of expression. Older
people were, on the whole, indifferent or positively hostile to
what was, for many, simply an 'unholy row'. In British society,
class and culture were bound inextricably together, but jazz was an
alien form with no obvious class affiliations. It was culturally
neither 'high' nor 'low', and so found a ready welcome in a world
where the old certainties were breaking down. Throughout this
period, jazz came in two more or less exclusive types -
'revivalist', which sought to recreate the classic jazz of the
1920s, and modern. Enthusiasts on both sides regarded their music
as being more important than mere entertainment. In it they found a
quality which they defined vaguely as 'honesty' or 'sincerity',
which may perhaps be summed up as 'authenticity'. The book follows
the development of both jazz tendencies over a decade and a half,
paying particular attention to two outstanding figures: Humphrey
Lyttelton and John Dankworth. It also seeks to convey a flavour of
that now remote era and the frisson that jazz created.
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