The heritage of slavery in British jazz festivals

McKay, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7770-0502 (2020) The heritage of slavery in British jazz festivals. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 26 (6). pp. 571-588. ISSN 1352-7258

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Abstract

This article explores site-specific heritage questions of the contemporary cultural practice of festivals of jazz – a key transatlantic music form – by bringing together three areas for discussion and development: questions of slavery heritage and legacy; the location, built environment and (touristic) offer of the historic city; and the contemporary British jazz festival, its programme and the senses or silences of (historical) situatedness in the festival package. Other artistic forms, cultural practices and festivals are involved in self-reflexive efforts to confront their own pasts; such are discussed as varying processes of the decolonisation of knowledge and culture. This provides the critical and cultural context for consideration of the jazz festival in the Georgian urban centre. Preliminary analysis of relevant jazz festivals’ programmes, commissions and concerts leads to interrogating the relationship – of silence, of place – between jazz in Britain, historic or heritage locations and venues, and the degree or lack of understanding of the transatlantic slave trade. The heritage centres clearly associated with the slave trade that also have significant (jazz) festivals referred to include Bristol, Cheltenham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Lancaster, Liverpool, London, and Manchester.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: transatlantic slave trade,,decolonisation,jazz,festival,music,slavery,britain,transatlantic slave trade,cultural studies,music,geography, planning and development,history,conservation,tourism, leisure and hospitality management,museology ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3316
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Film, Television and Media
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 12 Nov 2018 15:30
Last Modified: 21 Jul 2023 09:50
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/68856
DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2018.1544165

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