Freedom Music (eBook)

Wales, Emancipation and Jazz 1850-1950

Jen Wilson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
336 Seiten
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-409-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

The stories within its pages will attract not only social and political historians, but feminists, jazz fans, academics interested in African American cultural interchange, and general readers fascinated by the cast of characters who played and danced to the music, despite warnings from the pulpit that degenerate youth were destined for hell and damnation.

Inhalt

Dedication
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Introduction
The Life, Times and Music of Abolitionist Jessie Donaldson (1799–1889)
Doing the Plantation Walkaround Skedaddle
The Fisk Jubilee Singers in Wales, Freed Slaves and their Songs
Ragtime and the Cake Walk: On Stage and in the Workhouse
The First World War: Ragtime Trenches and Suffragettes
Cafe Society: The Jazz Age
Cutting a Rug to the Second World War: Jews and ‘Negro Morals’
Fair Treatment for the ‘Fair Sex’?
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1850 • 1950 • Emancipation • freedom • Jazz • Jen • music • Wales • Wilson
• ISBN-10: 1-78683-409-X / 178683409X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78683-409-6 / 9781786834096