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Author McKay, George, 1960- author.

Title Circular breathing : the cultural politics of jazz in Britain / George McKay
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 357 pages) : illustrations
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Introduction : jazz, Europe, Americanization -- New Orleans jazz, protest (Aldermaston), and carnival (Beaulieu) -- Whiteness and (British) jazz -- Jazz of the black Atlantic and the Commonwealth -- The politics and performance of improvisation and contemporary jazz in the 1960s and 1970s -- From "male music" to feminist improvising
Summary An exploration of the political and cultural experience of jazz performers in Britain from the 1950s "traditional jazz boom" on
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and index
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Subject Jazz -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
Jazz -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
Improvisation (Music) -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Jazz.
Improvisation (Music)
Jazz
Jazz -- Social aspects
Jazz
Gesellschaft
Improvisation
Musiksociologi -- Storbritannien.
Jazz -- sociologiska aspekter.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822387282
082238728X