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In Paris Blues, Andy Fry provides an alternative history of African American music and musicians in France, one that looks beyond familiar personalities and well-rehearsed stories. He pinpoints key issues of race and nation in France’s complicated jazz history from the 1920s through the 1950s. While he deals with many of the traditional icons—such as Josephine Baker, Django Reinhardt, and Sidney Bechet, among others—what he asks is how they came to be so iconic, and what their stories hide as well as what they preserve. Fry focuses throughout on early jazz and swing but includes its re-creation—reinvention—in the 1950s. Along the way, he pays tribute to forgotten traditions such as black musical theater, white show bands, and French wartime swing. Paris Blues provides a nuanced account of the French reception of African Americans and their music and contributes greatly to a growing literature on jazz, race, and nation in France.
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Andy Fry teaches in the Music Department at King’s College London.
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- EditoreUniv of Chicago Pr
- Data di pubblicazione2014
- ISBN 10 022613878X
- ISBN 13 9780226138787
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine282
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Paris Blues: African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960
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University of Chicago Press
(2014)
ISBN 10: 022613878X
ISBN 13: 9780226138787
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized. Codice articolo M022613878XZ3
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