Lee Morgan - His Life, Music and Culture - Tom Perchard
interlude: jazz criticism and race politics in the early 1960s
Lee Morgan - His Life, Music and Culture - Tom Perchard
Tom Perchard [+]
Goldsmiths College and the University of Westminster
Tom Perchard was born in 1976. He received his doctorate from the University of London, and he teaches at Goldsmiths College and the University of Westminster. He is a regular contributor to The Wire magazine.
Description
This chapter discusses jazz in the 1960s and jazz criticism, which came mostly from white musicians. Moreover, it presents the 1960s Black Arts Movement, whose theorists argued that white critics had little understanding or empathetic feeling toward the cultural and aesthetic sphere to which jazz belonged.