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At Home in Our Sounds - Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris (Hardcover)
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At Home in Our Sounds - Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris (Hardcover)
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At Home in Our Sounds illustrates the effect jazz music had on the
enormous social challenges Europe faced in the aftermath of World
War I. Examining the ways African American, French Antillean, and
French West African artists reacted to the heightened visibility of
racial difference in Paris during this era, author Rachel Anne
Gillett addresses fundamental cultural questions that continue to
resonate today: Could one be both black and French? Was black
solidarity more important than national and colonial identity? How
could French culture include the experiences and contributions of
Africans and Antilleans? Providing a well-rounded view of black
reactions to jazz in interwar Paris, At Home in Our Sounds deals
with artists from highly educated women like the Nardal sisters of
Martinique, to the working black musicians performing at all hours
throughout the city. In so doing, the book places this phenomenon
in its historical and political context and shows how music and
music-making constituted a vital terrain of cultural politics-one
that brought people together around pianos and on the dancefloor,
but that did not erase the political, regional, and national
differences between them.
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