![]() ![]() Some-Jeff Nuttall, George Melly-are, sadly, now dead. I hugely enjoyed meeting and talking with these people, whose cultural and political autobiographies were full of energy, rebellion, fun, with music at the heart. There is a short-ish introduction to give a sense of context to readers unfamiliar with that period of Britain’s cultural history. I edited responses, and structured them here according to the main issues I asked about and to key points that seemed to recur from different interviewees. The project ran through 2001-2002 and was entitled American Pleasures, Anti-American Protest: 1950s Traditional Jazz in Britain. These are transcriptions of interviews and correspondence undertaken as part of an Arts and Humanities Research Board (now Council)-funded project exploring the cultures and politics of traditional jazz in Britain in the 1950s.
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