Contents

Preface

Part I Historical and Theoretical Perspectives:

• Chapter 1 The Cultural and Musical Antecedents of Jazz in Britain     available to download as pdf

• Chapter 2 The Evolving Image of Jazz in Britain in Sheet Music

• Chapter 3 The 'Jazz Age' in Britain

Part II The Evolving Presence of Jazz in Britain:

• Chapter 4 In Dahomey: A Negro Musical Comedy

• Chapter 5 The Music and Symbolism of the Banjo

• Chapter 6 The Original Dixieland Jazz Band and the Southern Syncopated Orchestra

• Chapter 7 Dance music, the 'Plantation Revues' and the 'Underworld of London'

• Chapter 8 Hot Jazz: Jack Hylton, Bert Firman and Fred Elizalde

• Chapter 9 Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington

Appendices
Bibliography
Index