AFTER DJANGO by Tom Perchard ( 9780472072422 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

AFTER DJANGO
MAKING JAZZ IN POSTWAR FRANCE

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Format:

Hardback

List price:	£76.95
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ISBN 10:

0472072420

ISBN 13:

9780472072422

Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS

Pub. date:

12 January, 2015

Series:

Jazz Perspectives

Pages:

308

Description:

The first study to focus on jazz in postwar France, this book explores the ways that French musicians and critics received and remade an American music according to their own cultural concerns

Synopsis:

How did French musicians and critics interpret jazz - that quintessentially American music - in the mid-twentieth century? How far did players reshape what they learned from records and visitors into more local jazz forms, and how did the music figure in those angry debates that so often suffused French cultural and political life? After Django begins with the famous interwar triumphs of Josephine Baker and Django Reinhardt, but, for the first time, the focus here falls on the French jazz practices ofthe postwar era. The work of important but neglected French musicians like Andre Hodeir and Barney Wilen is examined in depth, as are native responses to Americans like Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. The book provides an original intertwining of musical and historical narrative, supported by extensive archival work. In clear and involving prose, it describes both the music that was made and the arguments to which jazz was recruited, from debates on national identity in the 1930s to the street battles of 1968, following decolonization.By examining musical practices as well as critical discourses, this book seeks to understand those problematic efforts towards aesthetic assimilation and transformation, made by those concerned with jazz in fact and in idea, even after anti-jazz diatribes disappeared from the press.

Illustrations:

13 examples, 1 figure, 3 black & white halftones

Publication:

Imprint:

The University of Michigan Press

Returns:

Returnable

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