![]() Discourses of Americanisation are always as much concerned with the import society as with the export culture itself, and I do also want to look at the effort at finding an indigenous (in this case, British) voice in an American form. I remain surprised that jazz as a cultural form has been insufficiently considered as a prime export culture and seek to balance that. This involves exploring questions of cultural and economic power and desire, of empires even, and the limits and problems of these. ![]() First, I want to consider African-American jazz music as an export culture, as a case study in the operation of the process or problem of ‘Americanisation’. My aim is to undertake two projects, with the argument that they are related to rather than distinct from each other. This is not really (only) a book about music, about the history of the sounds of jazz in Britain, but a study of the circulation and political inscriptions in and usages of that music’s form and history.
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