1st Edition
New Jazz Conceptions History, Theory, Practice
Table of Contents
Introduction – Roger Fagge and Nicolas Pillai
1. Duke Ellington, the meaning of jazz and the BBC in the 1930s – Tim Wall
2. Making scenes: social media and new conceptions of jazz communities – Tom Sykes
3. Protection and internationalism: The British Musicians’ Union and restrictions on
foreign musicians – Andrew Hodgetts
4. Brubeck betwixt and between: television, pop and the middlebrow – Nicolas Pillai
5. Duke Ellington’s Newport Up! Liveness, Artifacts, and the Seductive Menace of Jazz Revisited – Katherine Williams
6. Everybody Digs Modern Jazz... Don’t They? – Adrian Litvinoff
7. ‘One of the most remarkable cultural phenomena of our century’: Larkin, Hobsbawm and Amis on Jazz – Roger Fagge
8. This Is Our Music?: Tradition, community and musical identity in contemporary British jazz – Mike Fletcher
9. A Time For Jazz: Narrative and History in Alan Lomax’s Mister Jelly Roll – Nicholas Gebhardt
Biography
Roger Fagge is an Associate Professor in History at the University of Warwick, UK.
Nicolas Pillai is a Research Fellow at Birmingham City University, UK.
