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- BFI identifier196901
- Date1975-11-23 (Television)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- SynopsisA look at the influence of American Jazz on British Music. It includes: a look at the 1919 British tour by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, and the wave of British imitators that followed the groups success; an examination of the anglicisation of the US jazz sound, with British dance bands appropriating elements of the style; a British song factory set up on American lines on London's Charing Cross Road; how the rise of the Hollywood musical made things difficult for British composers; and 1930s move towards a `Swing' style. (NFA Catalogue) TV documentary on popular song and dance in the 1920s. Second of three programmes about the transatlantic take-over this century of Britain's popular song and dance. (Synopsis)
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Title
The Friendly Invasion From Jazz to Swing (Original)
Category
Non Fiction- Omnibus
Series Work - 768323
United Kingdom - TV - Non Fiction
- +The Friendly Invasion From Jazz to Swing
Work - 196901 - 1975-11-23 (Television)
United Kingdom - TV - Non Fiction
- +The Friendly Invasion From Jazz to Swing
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