Jazz Away From Home Chris Goddard

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Jazz Away from Home

 By Chris Goddard.

Paddington Press, 1979. 319 pp.

New York & London:

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Goddard's book is an examination of the cultural and social impact jazz made

on Europe from the end of the First World War to the early 1930s. He discusses

the role of jazz as one of the solvents effecting the post-war changes in mores

and values, and seeks to investigate why jazz was never assimilated or

understood by educated Europeans.

Goddard begins by showing how jazz - as opposed to ragtime - reached

Europe following America's entry into the war in 1917. Many Negroes came to

Europe as part of army bands and it was in France, with its more relaxed social

and racial attitudes, that they found their best reception. The 'Jazz Age' itself,

however, preceded real understanding of jazz music by many years, and

Goddard points out that the popularity of jazz at that time was largely brought

about by publicity, as for example in the case of the Original Dixieland Jazz

Band - though Goddard observes that this band did swing more than contemporary

Europeanised Negro bands.

Throughout his book Goddard argues that it was the rhythmic qualities of

jazz that eluded most Europeans who tried to recreate or analyse the music. In

one chapter, when discussing the crucial importance of the theatre and dance

in the development of jazz, he makes clear that jazz is inspired by dance and

not vice-versa, and that the music reflected the complexity of dance rhythms,

the mastery of which defeated European dancers and musicians. Various

remarks by jazz musicians are quoted in the book to emphasise the novel

stressing of 4/4 time as opposed to the 2/4 or 3/4 of most European popular

music, and Gunther Schuller's description of this as 'the democratisation of the

beat' is also referred to. It was this complexity which was to prove as difficult for

musicians as for non-musicians.

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