Jazz and machine-age imperialism : music, "race," and intellectuals in France, 1918-1945

Jazz and machine-age imperialism : music, "race," and intellectuals in France, 1918-1945 / Jeremy F. Lane.

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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Main Author: Lane, Jeremy F. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]
Series:Jazz perspectives.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Jazz > France > History and criticism.
Music and race > France > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Music and the war.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Jazz.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Jazz
Music and race
Music and war
France
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Between "the Virgin Forest and Modernism" : Techno-Primitive Hybrids in the Work of André Schaeffner and Robert Goffin
  • Armstrong's "Bitter Laughter" : Jazz, Gender, and Racial Politics in Léon-Gontran Damas's Pigments (1937)
  • Jazz as Antidote to the Machine Age : From Hugues Panassié to Léopold Sédar Senghor
  • "And What If Jazz Were French ...?" : Postcolonial Melancholy and Myths of French Louisiana in Vichy-Era France
  • "Marvellous" Ellington : René Ménil, Jazz, Surrealism, and Creole Identity in Wartime Martinique.

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