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Dear jazz research network

You may recall a month or so ago I put a request on the list for suggestions to help me with some work I’ve been doing on UK jazz (and festivals) musical responses to transatlantic slave trade. Thank you to members for taking time to respond. I said if there was interest I would write a blog including replies. There was, and I have.

If you are interested, you can read my brief survey in the blog below, which also has a number of videos and music extracts embedded.

https://georgemckay.org/black-history-month-uk-jazz-and-the-transatlantic-slave-trade/

Best wishes, and thanks again—

George

Prof George McKay, AHRC Leadership Fellow Connected Communities,

Film, Television & Media Studies,

University of East Anglia,

Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK

Tel: +44 (0)779 1077 074; +44 (0)1603 592152.

Recent publications: ed. The Pop Festival: History, Music, Media, Culture (2015)

From Glyndebourne to Glastonbury: The Impact of Music Festivals in Britain (2016; free download)

Music From Out There, In Here: 25 Years of the London Jazz Festival (2017; free download)

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Date: Friday, 21 September 2018 at 12:53
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Subject: jazz and transatlantic slave trade in Britain

Dear jazz research list-members

I wonder if you can help me. I am writing about legacies of slave trade, heritage, jazz festival locations, and jazz in Britain.

I am interested in ways in which jazz in Britain/British jazz has referenced the transatlantic slave trade in its composition, titles, music-making, jazz festival programming and commissioning. Eg, in terms of music, one can think of in very recent years things like:

part of the composed repertoire of black British musicians: pianist Julian Joseph’s 2007 jazz opera Bridgetower: A Fable of 1807, the Jazz Warriors’ Afropeans album (2008), pieces by saxophonists Soweto Kinch (‘Equiano’s tears’, 2003) or Courtney Pine (‘Samuel Sharpe’, 2012).

Doesn’t seem much? The 2007 Bicentenary of Abolition of Slave Trade national events led to some gigs and commissions (Joseph’s was one), of course, and I’ve found some of these in that year’s London Jazz Festival programme. But the S Africans around the Blues Notes etc? White players’ responses? Earlier 20^th music?

Can anyone please point me to further examples? Thank you! Do reply off-list, for the sake of people’s inbox sanity. If there is interest I could collate the responses in a blog post.