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Le jazz : jazz and French cultural identity / Matthew F. Jordan

Author
Jordan, Matthew F.
Additional Titles
Jazz and French cultural identity
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 298) : illustrations
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Contents
Vamp on the meaning of jazz : the cakewalk comes to town -- The first wave : jazz and cultural recovery -- Jazz and the modern public in the age of mechanical reproduction -- La revue nègre, ethnography, and cultural hybridity -- The jazz-hot years -- Zazou dans le Métro : occupation, swing, and the battle for la jeunesse -- Assimilation, absence, and the liberation of French discourse on jazz.
Summary
"Countering the histories of jazz's celebratory reception in France, Jordan delves into the reluctance of many French citizens to accept jazz with the same enthusiasm as the liberal humanists and cosmopolitan crowds of the 1930s. Jordan argues that some listeners and critics perceived jazz as a threat to traditional French culture, and only as France modernized its identity did jazz become compatible with notions of Frenchness. Le Jazz speaks to the power of enlivened debate about popular culture, art, and expression as the means for constructing a vibrant cultural identity, revealing crucial keys to understanding how the French have come to see themselves in the postwar world."--From publisher description.
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ISBN
9780252053870 (electronic bk.)
0252053877 (electronic bk.)
9780252035166 (cloth ; alk. paper)
025203516X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780252077067 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0252077067 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-291) and index.
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