This book reclaims for Wales the history and culture of a music that
eventually emerged as jazz in the 1920s, its tendrils and roots
extending back to slave songs and abolition campaign songs, and
Swansea’s long-forgotten connection with Cincinnati, Ohio. The main
themes of the book are to illustrate and emphasise the strong links
between emerging African American music in the USA and the development
of jazz in mainstream popular culture in Wales; the emancipation and
contribution of Welsh women to the music and its social-cultural
heritage; and an historical appraisal as the music journeyed towards
the Second World War and into living memory. The jazz story is set
amid the politics, socio-cultural and feminist history of the time
from whence the music emerged – which begs the question ‘When Was
Jazz?’ (to echo Gwyn A. Williams in 1985, who asked ‘When Was
Wales?’). If jazz is described as ‘the music of protest and
rebellion’, then there was certainly plenty going on during the jazz
age in Wales.
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ISBN
9781786834089
Publisert
2023
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Vendor
University of Wales Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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