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Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism: Music, "Race," and Intellectuals in France, 1918-1945 (Jazz Perspectives)

Full title: Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism: Music, "Race," and Intellectuals in France, 1918-1945 (Jazz Perspectives)
ISBN: 9780472118816
ISBN 10: 0472118811
Authors: Lane, Jeremy F.
Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
Num. pages: 240
Binding: Hardcover
Language: en
Published on: 2013

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Synopsis

Between The Virgin Forest And Modernism: Techno-primitive Hybrids In The Work Of Andre Schaeffner And Robert Goffin -- Armstrongs Bitter Laughter: Jazz, Gender, And Racial Politics In Leon-gontran Damas's Pigments (1937) -- Jazz As Antidote To The Machine Age: From Hugues Panassie To Leopold Sedar Senghor -- And What If Jazz Were French...? Postcolonial Melancholy And Myths Of French Louisiana In Vichy-era France -- Marvellous Ellington: Rene Menil, Jazz, Surrealism, And Creole Identity In Wartime Martinique -- Coda: Jazz After Empire Jeremy F. Lane. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.