La France du jazz
Martin D.C./Roueff O.
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In jazz, that is to say both in the music that this word covers, in the uses that are made of the term and in the projections for which it is the pretext, technical modernity and primitive spontaneity are combined, individualism and community, pompous decency (whiteman) and unbridled sensuality (joséphine baker), america and africa. the book by denis-constant martin and olivier roueff is not just a new story of the beginnings of jazz in france because, once traced the history of its establishment, its budding and its influence on popular music in france, he is examining the ways of appropriating his power of evocation, through the diversity and the contradictions of the speeches which he provoked and which marked the first steps of his life in our country. Indeed, jazz, upon its arrival in France, has become a useful language for talking about something else. Afro-American music, set up as an issue from the twenties to the fifties, is caught up in debates that do not concern it but help to give it its forms the jazz is used to talk about France which seeks itself in these ambiguous moments of the exits of the two world wars and the beginnings of decolonization. its interbreeding, its evolutions, which some accept with difficulty or reject outright, make it an appropriate vehicle for discussing essential problems: identity and modernity, the relationships they maintain. in the appendix, a large number of articles published in French newspapers or reviews between 1918 and 1931 (therefore among the first to evoke jazz) are once again made accessible to the public.
Autor / Contributor: Martin DC / Roueff O.
Weight / weight: 0.54
ISBN: ISBN 978-2-86364-618-2
Autor / Contributor: Martin DC / Roueff O.
Weight / weight: 0.54
ISBN: ISBN 978-2-86364-618-2
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