Dancing with DeBeauvoir : jazz and the French / Colin Nettelbeck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nettelbeck, Colin W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--Social aspects--France.

Jazz.

Jazz--France--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2004.

Summary:

When live jazz arrived in France towards the end of World War I, it was seen from the start as a fertile symbol of other things. It was an embodiment of artistic freedom, it was modernism, it was America, it was African primitivism, sexual liberation, social decadence and moral decay. Its energy and innovation helped produce an unprecedented explosion of activity in modern French art and thought. Paris and jazz had a special relationship. From the United States flowed a stream of black jazz artists keen to taste the freedom and sophistication of the City of Light: Josephine Baker, Sidney Bechet, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis. In their audiences were other significant Americans who called Paris home--Ernest Hemingway, Cole Porter, Sylvia Beach, and Man Ray. Django Reinhardt, Jean Cocteau, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Boris Vian, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle and Jacques Derrida were among the French artists and intellectuals who also responded, transforming their culture into jazz's second home. In Dancing with De Beauvoir, Colin Nettelbeck explores the powerful synergies between jazz and the French. This authoritative cultural history not only recalls influential performances and recordings. It teases out the threads of artistic collaborations and rivalries, revisits influential meetings, love affairs and friendships, and explores tensions in US-French relations, to show how jazz has helped shaped modern French culture. Stylishly illustrated with rare black-and-white photographs, this is a book for anyone who has ever fallen in love with France, and wondered why.

Contents:

Intro

DANCING WIth DeBEAUVOIR

Contents

List of photographs

Acknowledgements

Introduction

CHAPTER 1 A DIFFERENT MUSIC

CHAPTER 2 SETTLING IN

CHAPTER 3 REVIVAL AND REVOLUTION

CHAPTER 4 FRENCH JAZZ COMES OF AGE

CHAPTER 5 FOLK HOT OR MODERN COOL?

CHAPTER 6 MAKING CROCODILES DAYDREAM

CHAPTER 7 DANCING WITH DE BEAUVOIR

CHAPTER 8 'IΝ ONE WORD: EMOTION'

CHAPTER 9 NON-STOP AT LE JOCKEY

Notes

Chapter 1: A Different Music

Chapter 2: Settling In

Chapter 3: Revival and Revolution

Chapter 4: French Jazz Comes of Age

Chapter 5: Folk Hot or Modem Cool?

Chapter 6: Making Crocodiles Daydream

Chapter 7: Dancing with De Beauvoir

Chapter 8: 'In One Word: Emotion'

Chapter 9: Non-stop at Le Jockey

Chronology

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-232) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522865684

0522865682

OCLC:

1496392207