Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism : Music, "Race," and Intellectuals in France, 1918-1945 /

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This book closely examines the reception of jazz among French-speaking intellectuals between 1918 and 1945 and is the first study to consider the relationships, sometimes symbiotic, sometimes antagonistic, between early white French jazz critics and those French-speaking intellectuals of color whose...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lane, Jeremy F. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Music and war.
Music and race.
Jazz.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Jazz.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Musique et guerre.
Musique et race > France > Histoire > 20e siecle.
World War, 1939-1945 > Music and the war.
Music and race > France > History > 20th century.
Jazz > France > History and criticism.
France.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Between "the Virgin Forest and Modernism" : Techno-Primitive Hybrids in the Work of Andre Schaeffner and Robert Goffin
  • Armstrong's "Bitter Laughter" : Jazz, Gender, and Racial Politics in Leon-Gontran Damas's Pigments (1937)
  • Jazz as Antidote to the Machine Age : From Hugues Panassie to Leopold Sedar Senghor
  • "And What If Jazz Were French ...?" : Postcolonial Melancholy and Myths of French Louisiana in Vichy-Era France
  • "Marvellous" Ellington : Rene Menil, Jazz, Surrealism, and Creole Identity in Wartime Martinique.

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