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Jazz and Postwar French Identity : Improvising the Nation.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (291 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498528771
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jazz and Postwar French IdentityDDC classification:
  • 781.65094409045
LOC classification:
  • ML3917.F8 -- .M347 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Le Monde du jazz -- 2 The Gendered Jazz Public -- 3 The Question and Politics of Race -- 4 More than an American Music -- 5 Red, White, and Blue Notes: French Jazz -- 6 And What of Empire? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: In the decades following World War II, French jazz audiences engaged in a process that both challenged and reinforced ideas about their own nation and culture. By negotiating subjects such as youth culture, gender expectations, American consumer society, citizenship, racism, civil rights, and decolonization, the French jazz public expressed important beliefs about France's place in a fast-changing world and a desire to maintain a strong national identity in the face of globalization.
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Le Monde du jazz -- 2 The Gendered Jazz Public -- 3 The Question and Politics of Race -- 4 More than an American Music -- 5 Red, White, and Blue Notes: French Jazz -- 6 And What of Empire? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

In the decades following World War II, French jazz audiences engaged in a process that both challenged and reinforced ideas about their own nation and culture. By negotiating subjects such as youth culture, gender expectations, American consumer society, citizenship, racism, civil rights, and decolonization, the French jazz public expressed important beliefs about France's place in a fast-changing world and a desire to maintain a strong national identity in the face of globalization.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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