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After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar France (Jazz Perspectives)
Tom Perchard
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Description for After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar France (Jazz Perspectives)
Hardcover. 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 Num Pages: 308 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 640.
How did French musicians and critics interpret jazz - that quintessentially American music - in the mid-twentieth century? How far did players reshape what they learned from records and visitors into more local jazz forms, and how did the music figure in those angry debates that so often suffused French cultural and political life? After Django begins with the famous interwar triumphs of Josephine Baker and Django Reinhardt, but, for the first time, the focus here falls on the French jazz practices ofthe postwar era. The work of important but neglected French musicians like André Hodeir and Barney Wilen is ... Read more
How did French musicians and critics interpret jazz - that quintessentially American music - in the mid-twentieth century? How far did players reshape what they learned from records and visitors into more local jazz forms, and how did the music figure in those angry debates that so often suffused French cultural and political life? After Django begins with the famous interwar triumphs of Josephine Baker and Django Reinhardt, but, for the first time, the focus here falls on the French jazz practices ofthe postwar era. The work of important but neglected French musicians like André Hodeir and Barney Wilen is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Jazz Perspectives
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472072422
SKU
V9780472072422
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About Tom Perchard
Tom Perchard teaches in the Department of Music at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
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