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
Text
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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 |
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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 |