Jazz Meets Pop in the United Kingdom



Tackley, CJ ORCID: 0000-0001-9729-1964
(2018) Jazz Meets Pop in the United Kingdom. In: The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies. Routledge, pp. 97-104. ISBN 9781138231160, 1138231169

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Abstract

Even in the “New Jazz Studies,” the popularity of jazz remains an “unpopular problem.” Moreover, the unpopularity of jazz receives even less frequent attention, and a spirit of advocacy threatens to overwhelm the objectivity of scholars. Recent history provides many examples of mainstream British pop artists performing jazz; in this chapter I focus on Robbie Williams’s Swings Both Ways (2013) and Annie Lennox’s Nostalgia (2014). I argue that jazz, rather than being at the cutting edge of musical development, can be readily positioned in the “middle of the road” and, rather than reflecting identities in a sophisticated way, can provide popular music that is commonly understood globally.

Item Type: Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords: Music
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 26 Oct 2018 09:39
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 01:13
DOI: 10.4324/9781315315805-10
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3028025