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Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism : Music, Race, and Intellectuals in France, 1918-1945.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Jazz Perspectives SeriesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (237 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472029228
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jazz and Machine-Age ImperialismDDC classification:
  • 781.65094409041
LOC classification:
  • ML3509
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: A groundbreaking study of the reception of jazz among French-speaking black intellectuals between 1918 and 1945.
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Intro -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.

A groundbreaking study of the reception of jazz among French-speaking black intellectuals between 1918 and 1945.

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