Encounters with Jazz on Television in Cold War , Cravinho..

Taylor & Francis

Encounters with Jazz on Television in Cold War Era Portugal19541974\nAuthor(s): Pedro Cravinho\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367489045, 978-0367489045\nSynopsis\nEncounters with Jazz on Television in Cold War Era Portugal: [tel] 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.\n\nFrom the days of the first feasibility studies for a proposed public television service in 1954, to the military coup that ov.