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Making Jazz French - Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris (Paperback, New)
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Making Jazz French - Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris (Paperback, New)
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
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Between the world wars, Paris welcomed not only a number of
glamorous American expatriates, including Josephine Baker and F.
Scott Fitzgerald, but also a dynamic musical style emerging in the
United States: jazz. Roaring through cabarets, music halls, and
dance clubs, the upbeat, syncopated rhythms of jazz soon added to
the allure of Paris as a center of international nightlife and
cutting-edge modern culture. In Making Jazz French, Jeffrey H.
Jackson examines not only how and why jazz became so widely
performed in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s but also why it was
so controversial.Drawing on memoirs, press accounts, and cultural
criticism, Jackson uses the history of jazz in Paris to illuminate
the challenges confounding French national identity during the
interwar years. As he explains, many French people initially
regarded jazz as alien because of its associations with America and
Africa. Some reveled in its explosive energy and the exoticism of
its racial connotations, while others saw it as a dangerous
reversal of France's most cherished notions of "civilization." At
the same time, many French musicians, though not threatened by jazz
as a musical style, feared their jobs would vanish with the arrival
of American performers. By the 1930s, however, a core group of
French fans, critics, and musicians had incorporated jazz into the
French entertainment tradition. Today it is an integral part of
Parisian musical performance. In showing how jazz became French,
Jackson reveals some of the ways a musical form created in the
United States became an international phenomenon and acquired new
meanings unique to the places where it was heard and performed.
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