Mid-century Modern Jazz: Music and Design in the Postwar Home
| Autor: | Tom Perchard |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Cultural Studies
Taste (sociology) media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Middlebrow 050801 communication & media studies 06 humanities and the arts Art Historical method 060404 music Visual arts 0508 media and communications Sensorium Historical sociology Criticism Jazz 0604 arts Music media_common Visual culture |
| Zdroj: | Popular Music. 36:55-74 |
| ISSN: | 1474-0095 0261-1430 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0261143016000672 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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