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Mid-century Modern Jazz

Music and Design in the Postwar Home

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5000314
AutoresTom Perchard (0000-0001-7931-0949, Goldsmiths University of London, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen36
Número1
Páginas55-74
Fecha de publicación2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPopular Music (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0261143016000672
OpenAlexW2565915320
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas5

This article takes an imagined, transnational living room as its setting, examining jazz's place in representations of the 'modern' middle-class home across the post-war West, and exploring the domestic uses that listeners both casual and committed made of the music in recorded form. In magazines as apparently diverse asIdeal Homein the UK andPlayboyin the US, a certain kind of jazz helped mark a new middlebrow connoisseurship in the 1950s and 60s. Yet rather than simply locating the style in a historical sociology of taste, this piece attempts to describe jazz's role in what was an emergent middle-class sensorium. The music's sonic characteristics were frequently called upon to complement the newly sleek visual and tactile experiences - of furniture, fabrics, plastics, the light and space of modern domestic architecture - then coming to define the aspirational bourgeois home; an international modern visual aesthetic was reflected back in jazz album cover art. But to describe experience or ambience represents a challenge to historical method. As much as history proper, then, it's through a kind of experimental criticism of both music and visual culture that this piece attempts to capture the textures and moods that jazz brought to the postwar home

Aesthetics · Art · Criticism · Highbrow · Jazz · Literature · Middlebrow · Style (visual arts · Taste · Visual arts · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · History · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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Obras citantes distintas3
Citas por año0,5
Intervalo de citas2020 - 2022 (3)
Velocidad de citaciónhistorical
Altamente citadoNo
Tipos de citaNeutras: 3

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