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Soundscapes of Liberation - African American Music in Postwar France (Paperback)
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Soundscapes of Liberation - African American Music in Postwar France (Paperback)
Series: Refiguring American Music
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In Soundscapes of Liberation, Celeste Day Moore traces the
popularization of African American music in postwar France, where
it signaled new forms of power and protest. Moore surveys a wide
range of musical genres, soundscapes, and media: the US military's
wartime records and radio programs; the French record industry's
catalogs of blues, jazz, and R&B recordings; the translations
of jazz memoirs; a provincial choir specializing in spirituals; and
US State Department-produced radio programs that broadcast jazz and
gospel across the French empire. In each of these contexts,
individual intermediaries such as educators, producers, writers,
and radio deejays imbued African American music with new meaning,
value, and political power. Their work resonated among diverse
Francophone audiences and transformed the lives and labor of many
African American musicians, who found financial and personal
success as well as discrimination in France. By showing how the
popularity of African American music was intertwined with
contemporary structures of racism and imperialism, Moore
demonstrates this music's centrality to postwar France and the
convergence of decolonization, the expanding globalized economy,
the Cold War, and worldwide liberation movements.
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