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Caliban reheard: new voices on jazz and American consciousness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Burton W. Peretti
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Wilfrid Mellers was one of the first scholars of American music to recognise that jazz was situated within many of the major contexts and controversies of American civilisation. In Music in a New Found Land (1965) and Caliban Reborn (1967), he argued eloquently that jazz was the music which both expressed and challenged urban alienation from a distinctly African-American point of view.

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Popular Music , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , May 1994 , pp. 151 - 164
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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