Research Catalog

Title

Encounters with jazz on television in Cold War era Portugal : 1954-1974 / Pedro Cravinho.

Author

Cravinho, Pedro

Publication

• New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

xiv, 213 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.

Summary

"Encounters with Jazz on Television in Cold War Era Portugal: 1954-1974 explores the relationship between jazz and television by investigating the experiences of performers and producers in one of the last European colonial states (Portugal) during a period of political and social repression and global isolation. This new model of systemic analysis reveals a paradoxical interrelationship between state-controlled television and international media industries, highlighting the space where these two forces collide and locating television jazz production within an important cultural milieu with a lasting impact on Portuguese society. From the days of the first feasibility studies for a proposed public television service in 1954, to the military coup that overthrew the far-right Estado Novo regime in 1974, this book maps the institutionalization of jazz in Portugal as a social and musical practice, one that played a great role in fostering cultural diversity. It looks at the musicians, repertoires, production processes, broadcasts, policies, and strategies that fueled the launch of Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (RTP) and the rise of television, an indispensable new medium that granted Portuguese people access to the wider world-a world curated by public television producers with individual cultural and aesthetic attitudes to influence the dissemination of jazz. In exploring the connections between these national and international jazz scenes, Encounters with Jazz on Television in Cold War Era Portugal: 1954-1974 addresses opportunities for in-depth comparison of the Portuguese experience with that of other countries, situating Cold War-era Portuguese television jazz broadcasting as part of a bigger, still unwritten story"--

Series Statement

Transnational studies in jazz

Uniform Title

Transnational studies in jazz.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Jazz on television
• Television broadcasting of music > Portugal > History > 20th century
• Television and music > Portugal > History > 20th century
• Television and music
• Television broadcasting of music
• Portugal

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-202) and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. Jazz culture and television in Portugal -- Laying the groundwork: the early history of Jazz in Portugal -- The medium: the emergence of television in Portugal -- Pt. 2. Encountering Jazz on Portugese television -- Jazz on early television -- "Live! Live on air": Jazz in the studios -- Under US influence: Manuel Jorge Veloso and the Newport Jazz Festival TV series -- Pt. 3. The "Jazz subversive": Manuel Jorge Veloso and the TV JAZZ series -- 'In the world of Jazz': The birth of TV JAZZ -- The TV JAZZ series and the arrival of European Jazz -- Coda: The International Cascais Jazz Festival (1971-1973) -- Conclusion.

Call Number

*LE 22-4730

ISBN

• 9780367489045
• 036748904X
• 9781032221618
• 1032221615

LCCN

2021047723

OCLC

1273677060

Author

Cravinho, Pedro, author.

Title

Encounters with jazz on television in Cold War era Portugal : 1954-1974 / Pedro Cravinho.

Publisher

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Transnational studies in jazz

Transnational studies in jazz.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-202) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Cravinho, Pedro. Encounters with jazz on television in Cold War era Portugal New York : Routledge, 2022 9781003043447 (DLC) 2021047724

Research Call Number

*LE 22-4730