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]]> http://wallofsound.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/salford-new-jazz-histories-seminar/#comment-335 Alyn Shipton Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:13:36 +0000 http://wallofsound.wordpress.com/?p=291#comment-335 A pretty fair summary of the Salford day and the questions it raised, I think, but picking up your point that "we need to avoid understanding the existing historical narratives of jazz as statements of truth, rather than frameworks which seek to make a complex world comprehensible" I'd recommend spending a bit of time with the 950 or so pages of my book A New History of Jazz (which underpinned my paper) given that it begins by proposing: "A lot of what we think we know about jazz is the result of a small body of information being passed from one generation of historians to another, much of it being accepted uncritically by each succeeding generation". I then spend some time trying to unpick the mythologies that led to those existing historical narratives being seen as "statements of truth". I'd be really interested in trying to provoke further debate on these questions as well... A pretty fair summary of the Salford day and the questions it raised, I think, but picking up your point that “we need to avoid understanding the existing historical narratives of jazz as statements of truth, rather than frameworks which seek to make a complex world comprehensible” I’d recommend spending a bit of time with the 950 or so pages of my book A New History of Jazz (which underpinned my paper) given that it begins by proposing: “A lot of what we think we know about jazz is the result of a small body of information being passed from one generation of historians to another, much of it being accepted uncritically by each succeeding generation”. I then spend some time trying to unpick the mythologies that led to those existing historical narratives being seen as “statements of truth”. I’d be really interested in trying to provoke further debate on these questions as well…

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