In Le Jazz, Matthew F. Jordan deftly blends textual analysis,
critical theory, and cultural history in a wide-ranging and highly
readable account of how jazz progressed from a foreign cultural
innovation met with resistance by French traditionalists to a
naturalized component of the country's identity. Jordan draws on
sources including ephemeral critical writing in the press and
twentieth-century French literature to trace the country's
reception of jazz, from the Cakewalk dance craze and the music's
significance as a harbinger of cultural recovery after World War II
to its place within French ethnography and cultural hybridity.
Countering the histories of jazz's celebratory reception in France,
Jordan delves into the reluctance of many French citizens to accept
jazz with the same enthusiasm as the liberal humanists and
cosmopolitan crowds of the 1930s. Jordan argues that some listeners
and critics perceived jazz as a threat to traditional French
culture, and only as France modernized its identity did jazz become
compatible with notions of Frenchness. Le Jazz speaks to the power
of enlivened debate about popular culture, art, and expression as
the means for constructing a vibrant cultural identity, revealing
crucial keys to understanding how the French have come to see
themselves in the postwar world.
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