The Dawn of the Jazz Age in the Caribbean
Dance, Consumer Culture, and the Imperial Shape of Modern Entertainment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21728486 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sergio Ospina Romero (0000-0002-1406-4393, Indiana University Bloomington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 347-377 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | twentieth-century music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-5722 • E-ISSN: 1478-5730 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1478572223000178 |
| OpenAlex | W4388413911 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
After 1917 the word ‘jazz’ disseminated rapidly throughout the world attaining, along the way, a multiplicity of meanings, sometimes related to musical practices from the United States, but often associated with a diverse array of things, objects, ideas, and situations in the worlds of music entertainment, dance, leisure, and fashion. In the Caribbean, this process entailed not only the constitution of jazz as a symbol of social modernity but also revealed a long history of exchanges between the United States and the Caribbean – not to mention the Afrodiasporic origins of jazz. By examining jazz as a by-product and an expression of Caribbean modernity, this article disentangles some of the cultural meanings of the word ‘jazz’ in the Caribbean between 1917 and 1920, considering, ultimately, how imagining jazz as Caribbean was inevitably intertwined with imagining it as modern
Aesthetics · Art · Concert dance · Constitution · Dance · Entertainment · Jazz · Jazz dance · Linguistics · Literature · Modernity · Musical · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Theater, Performance, and Music History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |