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1 online resource. |
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data file |
| Series |
Jazz perspectives
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Jazz perspectives.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-220) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; 1 -- Between "the Virgin Forest and Modernism" : Techno-Primitive Hybrids in the Work of André Schaeffner and Robert Goffin ; 2 -- Armstrong's "Bitter Laughter" : Jazz, Gender, and Racial Politics in Léon-Gontran Damas's Pigments (1937); 3 -- Jazz as Antidote to the Machine Age: From Hugues Panassié to Léopold Sédar Senghor; 4 -- "And What If Jazz Were French ...?" : Postcolonial Melancholy and Myths of French Louisiana in Vichy-Era France; 5 -- "Marvellous" Ellington: René Ménil, Jazz, Surrealism, and Creole Identity in Wartime Martinique; Coda; Notes. |
| Summary |
" ... a bold challenge to the existing homogenous picture of the reception of American jazz in world-war era France. Lane's 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 first encounters with the music in those years played a catalytic role in their emerging black or Creole consciousness. Jazz's first arrival in France in 1918 coincided with a series of profound shocks to received notions of French national identity and cultural and moral superiority. These shocks, characteristic of the era of machine-age imperialism, had been provoked by the first total mechanized war, the accelarated introduction of Taylorist and Fordist production techniques into European factories, and the more frequent encounters with primitive 'Others' in the imperial metropolis engendered by interwar imperialism. Through close readings of the work of early white French jazz critics, alongside the essays and poems of intellectuals of color such as the Nardal sisters, Léon-Gontran Damas, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Réne Ménil, Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism highlights the ways in which the French reception of jazz was bound up with a series of urgent contemporary debates about primitivism, imperialism, anti-imperialism, black and Creole consciousness, and the effects of American machine-age technologies on the minds and bodies of French citizens"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Local Note |
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| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Jazz -- France -- History and criticism.
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Jazz. |
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France. |
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Music and race -- France -- History -- 20th century.
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Music and race. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Music and the war.
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World War (1939-1945) |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jazz and machine-age imperialism Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2013 9780472118816 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2012047395 |
| ISBN |
9780472029228 ebook |
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0472029223 ebook |
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9781299734593 ebook |
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1299734596 ebook |
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9780472118816 cloth ; alkaline paper |
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0472118811 cloth ; alkaline paper |
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9780472036172 paperback ; alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
99954504039 |
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10.3998/mpub.5328915 |
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