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.
Gordon Stretton, Black British Transoceanic Jazz PioneerREADERSHIP: Professional & Vocational
ISBN-10: 1498574467
ISBN-13: 9781498574464
Author:
Brocken, Michael /
Daniels, Jeff /
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: September 2018
Format: Hardback
Language: English
Dimensions: 161 x 236 x 22 mm
Weight: 672 g
Pages: 352 pages, 8 Halftones, black and white pages
Title: Gordon Stretton, Black British Transoceanic Jazz Pioneer