After Django : making jazz in postwar France /

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The first study to focus on jazz in postwar France, this book explores the ways that French musicians and critics received and remade an American music according to their own cultural concerns.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Perchard, Tom, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, [2015]
Series:Jazz perspectives (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Subjects:
1941-1970
Jazz > France > 1941-1950 > History and criticism.
Jazz > France > 1951-1960 > History and criticism.
Jazz > France > 1961-1970 > History and criticism.
Jazz > France > 1941-1950 > Histoire et critique.
Jazz > France > 1951-1960 > Histoire et critique.
Jazz > France > 1961-1970 > Histoire et critique.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Jazz.
Jazz
France.
Frankreich
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Histories of jazz in France
  • Hugues Panassié's supernatural swing : criticism, politics and the iconic jazz recording
  • Jazz between art and entertainment : André Hodeir and Thelonious Monk
  • Cool going cold : Miles Davis and Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
  • Barney Wilen : phantoms and freedom
  • Looking for something we don't yet know : towards a French jazz
  • A good jazzman is a dead jazzman.

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