After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar France - Jazz Perspectives - Tom Perchard - Books - The University of Michigan Press - 9780472052424 - January 12, 2015
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After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar France - Jazz Perspectives

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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

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Tom Perchard teaches in the Department of Music at Goldsmiths, University of London. Publisher Marketing: 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 of the postwar era. The work of important but neglected French musicians such as Andre Hodeir and Barney Wilen is examined in depth, as are native responses to Americans such as Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. The book provides an original intertwining of musical and historical narrative, supported by extensive archival work; in clear and compelling prose, Perchard describes the problematic efforts towards aesthetic assimilation and transformation made by those concerned with jazz in fact and in idea, listening to the music as it sounded in discourses around local identity, art, 1968 radicalism, social democracy, and post colonial politics.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 12, 2015
ISBN13 9780472052424
Publishers The University of Michigan Press
Genre Interdisciplinary Studies > Pop Culture
Pages 308
Dimensions 230 × 151 × 21 mm   ·   444 g

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