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Russia and the Creation of Jazz in the British Everyday Imaginary

Issue: Vol 13 No. 1-2 (2019) Special Issue: Jazz and Everyday Aesthetics

Journal: Jazz Research Journal

Subject Areas: Popular Music

DOI: 10.1558/jazz.37811

Abstract:

This essay considers the role played by images of Russia and Russian culture in conjuring the earliest appearances of jazz in the everyday British imaginary.

Author: Robert Lawson-Peebles

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