| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 331 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-311), discography (pages 293-295) and index. |
| Summary |
In charting the life and times of Gordon Stretton, this text makes a major contribution to both jazz and popular music studies. By asking historians to re-evaluate the contributions made to the development of jazz by those 'other than' African Americans, it proposes new jazz histories emanating from pathways, influences and encounters. |
| Contents |
Foreword -- 1. Introduction: "The times are always contained in the rhythm" (attributed to Quincy Jones) -- 2. Literature -- Section one: Survival and emergence: From Liverpool to London -- 3. Survival: The Liverpool of William Masters -- 4. Emergence: "Gordon Stretton" -- 5. Identification: London (and Jazz) Calling! Dark Town Jingles, Billy Dorsey, "They did a Marconi test in a plane" -- 6. Fragments: A summary of Gordon Stretton's career prior to Paris via historical fragments: Advertising, promotional materials, sheet music, recordings -- Section two: Affirmation: "And so to Paris" -- 7. Affirmation -- Section three: Celebration: The Latin American adventure; Brazil and Argentina -- 8. Celebration! Gordon Stretton and transoceanic jazz -- 9. Verification: Audiovisuals and a home in Argentina -- g10. Gordon Stretton and the Anglo Argentine community in Buenos Aires -- 11. Confirmation: So, what can we learn? -- Appendix 1: Timelines -- Appendix 2: Short biographical notes on members of the Jamaican Choral Union -- Appendix 3: Brief pen pictures of a few musicians who performed with Gordon Stretton -- Appendix 4: Email received from Guy Revell, Royal Air Force Museum, London -- Appendix 5: Discography -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the authors. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Stretton, Gordon.
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Jazz musicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Jazz musicians. |
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Great Britain. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Drummers (Musicians) -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Jazz -- England -- Liverpool -- History.
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Drummers (Musicians) |
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England -- Liverpool. |
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History. |
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Musicians, Black -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Musicians, Black. |
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Jazz. |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians. |
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collective biographies.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Daniels, Jeff, 1956- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gordon Stretton, Black British transoceanic jazz pioneer Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018] 9781498574464 (DLC) 2018909134 |
| ISBN |
9781498574471 ebook |
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1498574475 |
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9781498574464 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1498574467 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9781498574471 electronic book |
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