Jazz diasporas : race, music, and migration in post-World War II Paris / Rashida K. Braggs.

"At the close of the Second World War, waves of African American musicians migrated to Paris, eager to thrive in its reinvigorated jazz scene. Jazz Diasporas challenges the notion that Paris was a color-blind paradise for African Americans. On the contrary, musicians--and African American artists ba...

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Uniform Title:Music of the African diaspora ; 18.
Main Author: Braggs, Rashida K., 1976- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Series:Music of the African diaspora ; 18.
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Physical Description:xvi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Variant Title:
Race, music, and migration in post-World War II Paris.
Format: Book

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