Black British Jazz: Routes, Ownership and Performance (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

Black British Jazz: Routes, Ownership and Performance (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)Black British musicians have been making jazz since around 1920 when the genre first arrived in Britain. This groundbreaking book reveals their hidden history and major contribution to the development of jazz in the UK. More than this, though, the chapters show the importance of black British jazz in terms of musical hybridity and the cultural significance of race. Decades before Steel Pulse, Soul II Soul, or Dizzee Rascal pushed their way into the

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