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Le Jazz : Jazz and French Cultural Identity
Author
Title
Le Jazz : Jazz and French Cultural Identity / Matthew F. Jordan.
ISBN
9780252053870
9780252035166
9780252077067
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2010.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource: illustrations
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"Countering the histories of jazz's celebratory reception in France, Jordan delves into the reluctance of many French citizens to accept jazz with the same enthusiasm as the liberal humanists and cosmopolitan crowds of the 1930s. Jordan argues that some listeners and critics perceived jazz as a threat to traditional French culture, and only as France modernized its identity did jazz become compatible with notions of Frenchness. Le Jazz speaks to the power of enlivened debate about popular culture, art, and expression as the means for constructing a vibrant cultural identity, revealing crucial keys to understanding how the French have come to see themselves in the postwar world."--From publisher description.
Variant and related titles
Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
Vamp on the meaning of jazz : the cakewalk comes to town
The first wave : jazz and cultural recovery
Jazz and the modern public in the age of mechanical reproduction
La revue negre, ethnography, and cultural hybridity
The jazz-hot years
Zazou dans le Metro : occupation, swing, and the battle for la jeunesse
Assimilation, absence, and the liberation of French discourse on jazz.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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