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As part of some AHRB-funded research on the development of jazz in Britain I've been interviewing some British jazz musicians, critics and enthusiasts from the traditional jazz scene of the 1950s on. The interviews, edited and transcribed, and interspersed with photographs and images, are available at: www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/class/cultstud/staff/mckay.doc www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/class/cultstud/mckay/mckay.doc Colleagues working on postwar social and cultural history may find them of interest and/or use. Issues touched on include: * the reception/rejection of American export culture * festival/pleasure/subculture/protest (CND, the jazz origins of pop festival culture in UK) * black/white music/identity/ies * New Orleans style marching bands * improvisation and/as liberation * jazz and masculinity, feminist interrogations. I hope to add to these interviews with a few more I've arranged in due course. George Professor George McKay Department of Cultural Studies University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE UK tel 01772 893038 direct (+44 1772 893038) tel 01772 893020 dept office (+44 1772 893020) fax 01772 892924 (+44 1772 892924) email [log in to unmask] Co-editor, Social Movement Studies: A Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest (Taylor & Francis). Series co-editor, Studies in Global Culture and Media (Frank Cass).