Gordon Stretton, Black British Transoceanic Jazz Pioneer (eBook)
352 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7447-1 (ISBN)
This extensively researched text concerning the life and career of Liverpool-born Black jazz musician Gordon Stretton not only contributes to the important debate concerning the transoceanic pathways of jazz during the 20th century, but also suggests to the jazz fan and scholar alike that such pathways, reaching as they also did across the Atlantic from Europe, are actually part of a largely ignored therefore partially-hidden history of 20th century jazz performance, industry and influence. The work also exists to contribute to a more complete picture of the significance of diaspora studies across the spectrum of popular music performance, and to award to those Liverpool musicians who were not contributors to the city's musical visage post-rock ';n' roll, a place in popular music history. Gordon Stretton was a jazz pioneer in several senses: he emerged from a poverty-stricken, racially marginalized upbringing in Liverpool to develop a popular music career emblematic of Black diasporan experience. He was a child dancer and singer in the Lancashire Lads (the troupe which was also part of a young Charlie Chaplin's development), a well-respected solo touring artist in the UK as ';The Natural Artistic Coon', a chorister and musical director with the Jamaican Choral Union and, having encountered syncopated music, a jazz percussionist, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist (not to mention a ground-breaking bandleader). All of these musical experiences took place through time on his own terms as he learnt his craft ';on the hoof' via many different encounters with musical genres from Liverpool to London, Paris, Brussels, Rio, and Buenos Aires. Gordon Stretton was truly a transoceanic jazz pioneer.
Mike Brocken is senior lecturer in popular music studies at Liverpool Hope University.Jeff Daniels is an independent research scholar who over the past decade has concentrated on the history of Gordon Stretton.
ForewordChapter One - An Introduction: “The Times Are Always Contained in the Rhythm” (attributed to Quincy Jones)Chapter Two – LiteratureSection One - Survival and Emergence: From Liverpool to LondonChapter Three - Survival: The Liverpool of William MastersChapter Four - Emergence: “Gordon Stretton”Chapter Five - Identification: London (and Jazz) Calling! Dark Town Jingles, Billy Dorsey; “they did a Marconi test in a plane”Chapter Six - Fragments: A Summary of Gordon Stretton’s Career Prior to Paris via Historical Fragments: Advertising, Promotional Materials, Sheet Music, RecordingsSection Two – Affirmation: “And So to Paris”Chapter Seven: AffirmationSection Three - Celebration: The Latin American Adventure; Brazil and ArgentinaChapter Eight - Celebration! Gordon Stretton and Transoceanic JazzChapter Nine - Verification: Audiovisuals and a Home in ArgentinaChapter Ten - Gordon and the Anglo Argentine community in Buenos AiresChapter Eleven – Confirmation: So, What Can We Learn?Appendix 1: TimelinesAppendix 2: Short Biographical Notes on Members of the Jamaican Choral UnionAppendix 3: Brief Pen Pictures of a Few Musicians Who Performed with Gordon StrettonAppendix 4: Email Received from Guy Revell, Royal Air Force Museum, LondonAppendix 5: Discography
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.9.2018 |
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Zusatzinfo | 8 Illustrations including: - 8 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs. |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues |
Schlagworte | Black diasporan jazz • Black Liverpool • British Coon singing • Early British jazz • Jazz in Argentina • Jazz in Paris • Jazz in Rio • Liverpool’s popular music • popular music studies • Syncopated dance music • Transoceanic jazz pathways |
ISBN-10 | 1-4985-7447-5 / 1498574475 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-7447-1 / 9781498574471 |
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