Circular Breathing
Subtitle: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain
By: George McKay.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Durham, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Jazz -- Social aspects -- Great Britain; Jazz -- Great Britain -- History and criticism; Improvisation (Music) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : jazz, Europe, Americanization; title: New Orleans jazz, protest (Aldermaston), and carnival (Beaulieu); title: Whiteness and (British) jazz; title: Jazz of the black Atlantic and the Commonwealth; title: The politics and performance of improvisation and contemporary jazz in the 1960s and 1970s; title: From "male music" to feminist improvising.