Global Context • 1917 • I
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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Global Context • 1917 • I
The first commercial jazz recording, Livery Stable Blues, is made in the US in New Orleans by the Original Dixieland Jass Band. Neither African-American nor original, the group nonetheless brings jazz to a national audience and launches a craze for the music.
An entry from the timeline included in the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance (2009–2010) at the Iziko National Gallery, which proposed connections between art production in South Africa and abroad against the social and political contexts that framed them. A revised version of this timeline was later featured in the retroactive Flight Paths (2011) exhibition guide commissioned by Clare Butcher.