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Author Jakes, Kelly, author.

Title Strains of dissent : popular music and everyday resistance in WWII France, 1940-1945 / Kelly Jakes.

Publication Info. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Rhetoric and public affairs series
Rhetoric and public affairs series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1. Repertoires of Resistance: Musical Resources for Reimagining the Nation; Chapter 2. La France en Chantant: The Rhetorical Construction of French Identity in Songs of the Resistance Movement; Chapter 3. Zazous in Zoot Suits: Race Play in Occupied Paris; Chapter 4. From Prisoners to Men: Operettas on the POW Camp Stage; Chapter 5. GI Jazz: Music and Power in Liberation France; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary During the German Occupation from 1940 to 1944, Resistance fighters, Parisian youth, and French prisoners of war mined a vast repertoire from a long national musical tradition and a burgeoning international entertainment industry, embracing music as a rhetorical resource with which to destabilize Nazi ideology and contest collaborationist Vichy propaganda. After the Liberation of 1944, popular music continued to mediate French political life, helping citizens to challenge American hegemony and recuperate their nation's lost international standing. Ultimately, through song, French dissidents rejected Nazi subordination, the politics of collaboration, and American intervention and insisted upon a return to that trinity of traditional French values, liberté, egalité, fraternité. Strains of Dissent recovers the significance of music as a rhetorical means of survival, subversion, and national identity construction and illuminates the creative and cunning ways that individual citizens defied the Occupation outside of formal resistance networks and movements -- Publisher's website.
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Subject Popular music -- Political aspects -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Popular music -- Political aspects.
France.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Popular music.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Music and the war.
World War (1939-1945)
Popular music -- France -- 1941-1950 -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 1941-1950
1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Added Title Popular music and everyday resistance in WWII France, 1940-1945
Other Form: Print version: 9781611863055 1611863058 (DLC) 2018011222 (OCoLC)1029064461
ISBN 1609175840 (electronic book)
9781609175849 (electronic book)
9781611863055
1611863058