{"id":918,"date":"2014-11-22T22:07:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T22:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/?p=918"},"modified":"2014-11-22T22:15:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T22:15:45","slug":"james-scott-skinner-foe-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/2014\/11\/22\/james-scott-skinner-foe-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"James Scott Skinner : Foe of Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-833\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2014\/06\/23178371.jpg\" alt=\"23178371\" width=\"334\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fiddler James Scott Skinner would certainly have had a pretty poor view of contemporary developments in traditional music whereby elements of Scottish folk and modern jazz are brought together in &#8216;fusion&#8217;. Indeed, one of his artistic aims was to kill jazz through fiddle music:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2014\/11\/Skinner-NYT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-922\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2014\/11\/Skinner-NYT.jpg\" alt=\"Skinner-NYT\" width=\"337\" height=\"695\" \/><\/a>\u00a0New York Times 14 March 1926<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately\/fortunately (please delete according to your own taste) he did not live long enough to complete his task:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2014\/11\/Skinner-NYT-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-920\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2014\/11\/Skinner-NYT-2.jpg\" alt=\"Skinner-NYT-2\" width=\"335\" height=\"473\" \/><\/a>\u00a0New York Times 18 March 1927<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiddler James Scott Skinner would certainly have had a pretty poor view of contemporary developments in traditional music whereby elements of Scottish folk and modern jazz are brought together in &#8216;fusion&#8217;. Indeed, one of his artistic aims was to kill &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/2014\/11\/22\/james-scott-skinner-foe-jazz\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}