Playing with real feeling: making sense of jazz in Britain
New Formations - ISSN 0950-2378
Volume 1988 Number 4
Playing with real feeling: making sense of jazz in Britain
Simon Frith pages -
Abstract
Frith looks at the development of jazz against a background of other popular music forms and the cultural presentation of black performers. He notes that pop music has always been branded ‘phoney’, whereas black jazz performers in particular were seen as authentic and were much less commercialized than their white counterparts. The black-and-white minstrel shows provided an early context which kept actual black performers outside the mainstream; meanwhile, later white singers have taken ‘blacking up’ in subtler directions, through, for example, the ‘slurred’ singing style of Mick Jagger and other rock performers. For many years, black jazz, though seen as more authentic than white popular music, remained on the margins as an elite taste. Gradually it has filtered through to the mainstream.
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Simon Frith (1988) Playing with real feeling: making sense of jazz in Britain, New Formations, 1988(4), -