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Battling under Britannia’s shadow: UK jazz dancing in the 1970s and ‘80s

  • Jane Carr
Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Abstract

UK Jazz dancing, that is the subject of this chapter, emerged in British clubs in the late 1970s. Drawing upon insights from intersectional and postcolonial theories, this subcultural development of jazz is examined to explore how attitudes to ‘race’, class and gender might be understood as embodied in the styles of dancing. By situating the dancing in relation to its historical context of often turbulent political, social and economic change, it is suggested that while the dancers were focussed on recognition on the dance floor, the dance challenges they participated in can be understood as sites within which young people not only battled against each other but with others to negotiate new British identities.

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Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 217–233

Publication milestones

  • Published - 31/03/2018

Publication status

Published - 31/03/2018

Place of publication

London

Publisher

Springer, Japan, India, Australia, Germany, United States, United Arab Emirates, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, China, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Brazil, France, Singapore

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/622419

Host publication title

Narratives in black British dance: embodied practices

Host publication editors

  • Adesola Akinleye

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