Delighted to have co-written, with Prof Tony Whyton from BCU, the introduction to a special issue of the International Journal of Heritage Studies, which brings together some of the key scholarship from the EU-funded CHIME project on and with European jazz festivals. You can read the full text freely here (although in fairness it’s only 4-5 pages long). Here’s a little, from the start.
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