ROGER COTTERRELL

El libro se concibió en la creencia de que el estudio sociológico del Derecho sobrepasa cualquier límite jurisdiccional. La Sociología del Derecho debería proporcionar las bases de un entendimiento de aquellas transformaciones del Derecho y la sociedad, que son mas fundamentales que los particulares cambios juridicos que ocurren en un ordenamiento concreto; deberia proveer de una mas amplia perspectiva, dentro de la cual un estudio juridico comparativo pudiera reportar un rico conocimiento del contexto social del cambio juridico. Al escribir el libro, impuse mi propio metodo de analisis sobre un amplio y disperso conjunto de materiales, y esboce ciertas ideas teoricas propias, entre las que destacan una especifica concepcion de la naturaleza de la ideologia, y, por ende, de la ideologia juridica. Dicha concepcion se usa en el texto, para criticar la teoria marxista, para analizar las condiciones de aceptacion popular del Derecho, para examinar algunos aspectos del profesionalismo juridico, y especialmente para desarrollar una interpretacion del papel de jueces y tribunales. Aunque la literatura de Sociologia del Derecho ha crecido rapidamente, y mis ideas han evolucionado desde que escribi el libro, pienso que sus estructuras analiticas fundamentales siguen siendo validas. Roger Cotterrell

Bass player Coleridge Goode recalls his Jamaican childhood, his arrival in Britain in the 1930s and the lively wartime London club scene. He recounts his career including working with the Ray Ellington Quartet of Goon Show fame and his long association with altoist Joe Harriott, the brilliant but tragic pioneer of European free jazz.Goode recorded with Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli, Ray Nance, George Shearing and other jazz stars. Always among the innovators, he has helped blend jazz with Indian music, serial compositions, choral works and poetry.In this book he tells candidly of the challenges and rewards of the jazz life as well as the destructive aspects he has seen especially racial discrimination and drugs.A contributor to many of the most exciting jazz developments of the past half century, Coleridge Goode is a thoughtful witness to a fascinating part of jazz history.The story of a mans resilience as well as an artists ingenuity, of Goodes steely determination to find his place in a society in a state of flux and play music that was both in and out of step with its shifting demographics. Independent on Sunday.Rich with anecdotes and one mans observations on the music he loves. Jazz Review