After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar France by Perchard, Tom

After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar France

How did French musicians and critics interpret jazz--that quintessentially American music--in the mid-twentieth century? How far did...
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Author: Tom Perchard
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After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar France by Perchard, Tom

After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar France

$135.37

After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar France

$135.37
Author: Tom Perchard
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 Andr 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.

Author: Tom Perchard
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 01/12/2015
Pages: 308
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780472052424


Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2015

About the Author
Tom Perchard teaches in the Department of Music at Goldsmiths, University of London.


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