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Product Identifiers
PublisherMelbourne University Publishing
ISBN-100522851134
ISBN-139780522851137
eBay Product ID (ePID)44570590
Product Key Features
Number of Pages254 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDancing with De Beauvoir : Jazz and the French
SubjectGeneral, Genres & Styles / Jazz
Publication Year2004
TypeTextbook
AuthorColin Nettelbeck
Subject AreaMusic
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight12.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2005-362367
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal781.650944
SynopsisExplores the synergies between jazz and the French. This cultural history teases out the threads of artistic collaborations and rivalries, revisits influential meetings, love affairs and friendships, and explores tensions in US-French relations, to show how jazz has helped shaped modern French culture., When live jazz arrived in France towards the end of World War I, it was seen from the start as a fertile symbol of other things. It was an embodiment of artistic freedom, it was modernism, it was America, it was African primitivism, sexual liberation, social decadence and moral decay. Its energy and innovation helped produce an unprecedented explosion of activity in modern French art and thought. Paris and jazz had a special relationship. From the United States flowed a stream of black jazz artists keen to taste the freedom and sophistication of the City of Light: Josephine Baker, Sidney Bechet, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis. In their audiences were other significant Americans who called Paris home--Ernest Hemingway, Cole Porter, Sylvia Beach, and Man Ray. Django Reinhardt, Jean Cocteau, Louis-Ferdinand Cline, Boris Vian, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle and Jacques Derrida were among the French artists and intellectuals who also responded, transforming their culture into jazz's second home. In Dancing with De Beauvoir , Colin Nettelbeck explores the powerful synergies between jazz and the French. This authoritative cultural history not only recalls influential performances and recordings. It teases out the threads of artistic collaborations and rivalries, revisits influential meetings, love affairs and friendships, and explores tensions in US-French relations, to show how jazz has helped shaped modern French culture. Stylishly illustrated with rare black-and-white photographs, this is a book for anyone who has ever fallen in love with France, and wondered why., American jazz musicians enjoyed a freedom in Paris that they never won at home. Many books and films have been made about painters and writers who went to Paris, yet far less focus on the lives of musicians from the United States who settled there. 'Dancing with De Beauvoir' explores the influence of jazz in France, on French music, cinema and literature, and on cultural icons from Ravel, Matisse, Sartre and De Beauvoir to Derrida.
LC Classification NumberML3509.F7
