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After Django : making jazz in postwar France / Tom Perchard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perchard, Tom, 1976-
- Series:
- Jazz perspectives (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
- Jazz perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jazz--France--1941-1950--History and criticism.
- Jazz.
- Jazz--France--1951-1960--History and criticism.
- Jazz--France--1961-1970--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (308 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The first study to focus on jazz in postwar France, this book explores the ways that French musicians and critics received and remade an American music according to their own cultural concerns
- Contents:
- Histories of jazz in France
- Hugues Panassié's supernatural swing : criticism, politics and the iconic jazz recording
- Jazz between art and entertainment : André Hodeir and Thelonious Monk
- Cool going cold : Miles Davis and Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
- Barney Wilen : phantoms and freedom
- Looking for something we don't yet know : towards a French jazz
- A good jazzman is a dead jazzman.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 0-472-07242-0
- OCLC:
- 907375484
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.5838566
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