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Jazz and machine-age imperialism : music, "race," and intellectuals in France, 1918-1945 / Jeremy F. Lane.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lane, Jeremy F.
- Series:
- Jazz perspectives (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
- Jazz perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jazz--France--History and criticism.
- Jazz.
- Music and race--France--History--20th century.
- Music and race.
- World War, 1939-1945--Music and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A groundbreaking study of the reception of jazz among French-speaking black intellectuals between 1918 and 1945.
- Contents:
- ""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""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references ( pages 209-220) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472029228
- 0472029223
- OCLC:
- 853239318
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