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a white woman to be concerned with something that Black people did meant to experience additional pressure." Through
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587:: "During the 1960s and '70s 'counterculture', much of which became a massive cash register, Val Wilmer fixed her strobe lights onto a musical and political landscape that really did in fact run counter to the culture. A shame so few — blacks and whites — were paying attention at the time. But her book, and the work it documented, remains as serious, and necessary, as ever."
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and others. She attended concerts accompanied by her mother, who believed her too young to go on her own. Wilmer states that it was a “tribute to mother's tolerance" being allowed to explore her interests so freely, especially during a time when little girls were often informed of the limitations of
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wrote: "With this book Val has made the courageous decision to tell it like it was. The result is a social history of music like no other, and a no-nonsense account of the development from birth to maturity of a dynamic woman whose documentary arts deserve to be reappraised as a whole in the light
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in May 1959 when she was still only 17. Reflecting on how this piece originated, Wilmer states: "I was an inveterate letter writer, that's how the break with Jesse Fuller came about, me writing to him out of the blue. Woe betide any
American musician who was foolish enough to have a contact address
1700:, Vol. II, No. 2 (August 2019), pp.121–154: a biography of the black British musician and entrepreneur Victor Robert (Bob) Barclay (1911–1987), with an examination of his place in the history of the British traditional jazz revival and the situation of a musician of colour in British society.
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published somewhere — I'd find it and fire off a letter. The amazing thing was really, I mean really, that so many would reply! These great musicians and characters from a black culture on the other side of the world writing back to this young suburban white girl in
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Since 1959, she has interviewed hundreds of musicians, written previews and criticism. Her work has been cited and used in research for many books, articles and films, including several biographies of major musicians. Her early interviews with
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noted: "The emphasis is on the people in these fourteen interviews, the personalities behind the jazz, their moods, ambitions, influences....The author observes well and the profiles are short and sharp with high notes for the buff."
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Her essays and obituaries are notable for their ability to subtly reveal the underlying inequities that Black artists and women faced in the music industry, often using their own words. In a 15 July 1960 obituary in
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Aware of the earliest records of jazz and blues, Wilmer began to write about jazz and other
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Wilmer is as important a photographer as she is a writer, having worked with hundreds of singers, jazz musicians and writers, and she has taken noted photographs of artists such as
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half a century ago, she finds the essence of the human spirit." The photobook published to acompany the exhibition, entitled
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1138:"Public Events | Black Chronicles | ' As Serious As Your Life': Val Wilmer In Conversation With Margaret Busby"
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2226:"Art, photography & architecture: Wilmer, Val (12 of 13). Oral History of British Photography"
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2418:"'Fela Kuti was always in his pants': legendary music photographer Val Wilmer's greatest shoots"
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2788:"Jazzwise's Val Wilmer to be featured on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs"
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1749:"Free jazz research and guerrilla scholarship: an interview with John Gray"
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2719:"The Blues Show with Cerys Matthews | Val Wilmer in Conversation"
2526:"Parliamentary Awards : Winners ...and winners on the night"
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1696:'Black Bob': his B-flat bombardon and the Yorkshire Jazz Band',
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Mama Said There'd Be Days like This: My Life in the Jazz World
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Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This: My Life in the Jazz World
1974:"Val Wilmer (1941-), Photographer, jazz historian and writer"
1949:"Val Wilmer, Kenneth Terroade In A Flat In Putney, July 1971"
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Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain
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Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain
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2805:"Desert Island Discs | Val Wilmer, writer and photographer"
1538:"Firing the Canon: Multiple Insularities in Jazz Criticism"
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Thelonious Monk: the Life and Times of an American Original
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Wilmer, Val, "Beuford Smith: In the Humane Tradition",
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The Face of Black Music: Photographs by Valerie Wilmer
3107:"Val Wilmer – Journalist, historian and photographer"
3085:"'Space is the Place': Val Wilmer Photographs Sun Ra"
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Fire Music: A Bibliography of the New Jazz, 1959–1990
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Fire Music: A Bibliography of the New Jazz, 1959-1990
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924:As Serious as Your Life: The Story of the New Jazz
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3156:"Val Wilmer interviewed by John Fordham Oct 2020"
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2987:"How We Met: Lauderic Caton and Louis Stephenson"
2956:'I'm Happy as All Hell that the Man Took My Songs
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3012:Coda: The Journal of Jazz and Improvised Music
3010:---. "Spirits Rejoice: Albert and Don Ayler".
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2272:"Jazz breaking news: Ronnie Scott’s Covers Up"
2099:"Memories of Hoppy: Interview with Val Wilmer"
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1398:Coda: The Journal of Jazz and Improvised Music
2559:"The Wire Salon: An Audience with Val Wilmer"
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812:Blue Moments, Black Sounds – A Retrospective
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3139:"Masters of Jazz Photography — Val Wilmer"
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3123:Jazz Diary / Jane Richards on Val Wilmer
2619:Sunday Feature: A Portrait of Val Wilmer
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1520:"Monk on Monk as told to Valerie Wilmer"
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999:Sunday Feature: A Portrait of Val Wilmer
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3078:Tangents: The Home of Unpopular Culture
3053:, Vol. 16, no. 7, The Photo Issue 2009.
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3074:"They Made Magic. Part 2: Val Wilmer"
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3047:"Jazz and Blues and Blues and Jazz"
2514:"Val Wilmer — Deep Blues 1960–1988"
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2255:"Ronnie Scott's tribute to founder"
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2862:Gannon, Robert. "Wilmer, Valerie",
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2032:, 22 January 1988; "Real People",
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2615:"7 Candid Photos of Jazz Legends"
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1801:"Oral history of jazz in Britain"
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2991:The Independent on Sunday Review
2908:(New York: Da Capo Press, 1997).
2864:The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
2692:Kaufman, Paul (9 October 2020).
2125:The Independent on Sunday Review
1715:The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
1606:"Val Wilmer: Dues And Testimony"
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2314:"Val Wilmer | The Photo Room"
2097:Blake, Adam (4 August 2015).
2002:, No. 61, August 1977. p. 41.
1805:British Library Sound Archive
1648:"Interview with John Cumming"
1646:Iverson, Ethan (March 2019).
1370:Wilmer, Val, "Monk on Monk",
1322:, New York: Free Press, 2009.
1309:, Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.
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1951:. Victoria and Albert Museum
1929:. Victoria and Albert Museum
1469:Hoyt, Satch (23 July 2019).
1383:Wilmer, Val, "Kitty Grime",
1042:Jazz Journalists Association
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2819:Sources and further reading
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2878:The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia
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2630:Colin (20 January 2018),
2603:"A Portrait of Val Wilmer"
2228:, British Library, Sounds.
1998:"The Unretouched Woman" ,
1911:The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia
1385:Jazz Journal International
1296:, New York: Da Capo, 1976.
868:Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris
864:Victoria and Albert Museum
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1400:, March–April 1997, p. 4.
1270:, August 1960, pp. 11–12.
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1283:, January 1961, pp. 3–5.
1199:Wilmer 1989, pp. 21, 46.
981:Parliamentary Jazz Award
786:Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
609:Wilmer's autobiography,
3042:, 2007: pp. 18–19.
3035:, 2005: pp. 24–26.
3021:, 2003: pp. 12–15.
2969:---. "Rudolph Dunbar".
2926:, 1973: pp. 47–49.
2496:As Serious As Your Life
2291:"Redecorating Ronnie's"
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1874:"Val Wilmer Collection"
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3090:The Liberator Magazine
2892:Encyclopaedia of Blues
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1671:Archer, Robyn (1990).
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1248:Wilmer, 1989, p. xiii.
1082:television programme,
983:for Services to Jazz.
975:Awards and recognition
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2698:National Jazz Archive
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1698:Popular Music History
1374:, 3 June 1965, p. 58.
1318:Kelley, Robin D. G.,
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840:Bentonia, Mississippi
478:Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
460:Wilmer's first book,
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2442:on 19 September 2015
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1927:"V&A Val Wilmer"
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1257:Wilmer 1989, p. xiv.
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