Soundscapes of liberation : African American music in postwar France / Celeste Day Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Celeste Day, 1980- author.

Series:

Refiguring American music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--France--20th century--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Blues (Music)--France--20th century--History and criticism.

Blues (Music).

African American musicians--France.

African American musicians.

African Americans--France--Music--History and criticism.

African Americans.

African Americans--Music--Influence.

Popular music--Europe--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Jazz--Europe--History and criticism.

Blues (Music)--Europe--History and criticism.

African Americans--Music.

Music.

Europe.

France.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Music.

Physical Description:

xiv, 294 pages : illustrations ; 2 cm.

Other Title:

African American music in postwar France

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"In Soundscapes of Liberation, Celeste Day Moore traces the popularization of African American music in postwar France, where it signaled new forms of power and protest. Moore surveys a wide range of musical genres, soundscapes, and media: the US military's wartime records and radio programs, the French record industry's catalogs of blues, jazz, and R&B recordings, the translations of jazz memoirs, a provincial choir specializing in spirituals, and US State Department-produced radio programs that broadcast jazz and gospel across the French empire. In each of these contexts, individual intermediaries such as educators, producers, writers, and radio deejays imbued African American music with new meaning, value, and political power. Their work resonated among diverse Francophone audiences but also transformed the lives and labor of African American musicians, who found financial and personal success as well as discrimination in France. By showing how the popularity of African American music was intertwined with contemporary structures of racism and imperialism, Moore demonstrates this music's centrality to postwar France and the convergence of decolonization, the expanding globalized economy, the Cold War, and worldwide liberation movements"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Jazz en Libertè: The US Military and the Soundscape of Liberation

Writing Black, Talking Back: Jazz and the Value of African American Identity

Spinning Race: The French Record Industry and the Production of African American Music

Speaking in Tongues: The Negro Spiritual and the Circuits of Black Internationalism

The Voice of America: Radio, Race, and the Sounds of the Cold War

Liberation Revisited: African American Music and the Postcolonial Soundscape

Sounding like a Revolution.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Jazz En Liberte: The US Military and the Soundscape of Liberation

2. Writing Black, Talking Back: Jazz and the Value of African American Identity

3. Spinning Race: The French Record Industry and the Production of African American Music

4. Speaking in Tongues: The Negro Spiritual and the Circuits of Black Internationalism

5. The Voice of America: Radio, Race, and the Sounds of the Cold War

6. Liberation Revisited: African American Music and the Postcolonial Soundscape.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Moore, Celeste Day, 1980- Soundscapes of liberation

ISBN:

9781478013761

1478013761

9781478014690

1478014695

OCLC:

1223066128