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Fagge, Roger J. (2018) Eric Hobsbawm and the significance of jazz. Cultural and Social History, 15 (5). pp. 745-762. doi:10.1080/14780038.2019.1568027 ISSN 1478-0038.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2019.1568027
Abstract
This paper explores Eric Hobsbawm's interest in Jazz, and argues that he helped popularise the music, gave it intellectual credibility, and that his jazz writings are still relevant for jazz scholars and cultural historians. Jazz also influenced his view of history. Drawing on his recently catalogued private papers, it suggests Hobsbawm consistently argued for the historical significance of jazz, was flexible in the use of genre and sub-genre, and was aware of the role of the music business, and the way critics and writers helped shape the music's meanings. In some ways this anticipated the 'New Jazz studies'. The paper also argues that Hobsbawm wrote partly as fan, and that his penetrating analysis of jazz sometimes led him to undervalue other popular music forms.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D204 Modern History | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cultural and Social History | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1478-0038 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 2018 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 15 | ||||||
| Number: | 5 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 745-762 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/14780038.2019.1568027 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | โThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Cultural and Social History on 21/01/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14780038.2019.1568027 | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 September 2018 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 August 2020 | ||||||
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