Mid-century Modern Jazz
Music and Design in the Postwar Home
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5000314 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Perchard (0000-0001-7931-0949, Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-74 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Popular Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0261143016000672 |
| OpenAlex | W2565915320 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
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
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |