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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subjects:
Jazz musicians > France > Paris > 20th century.
African American musicians > France > Paris > 20th century.
Jazz > France > Paris > History and criticism.
African American authors > France > Paris > 20th century.
Paris (France) > Race relations > 20th century.
African American authors.
African American musicians.
Jazz.
Jazz musicians.
Race relations.
France > Paris.
1900 - 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:xvi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Variant Title:
Race, music, and migration in post-World War II Paris.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Performing diaspora with Sidney Bechet
  • Jazz at home in France: French jazz musicians on the war path to "authentic" jazz
  • Inez Cavanaugh: creating & complicating jazz community
  • Boris Vian & James Baldwin in Paris: are we a blues people too?
  • Kenny Clarke's journey between "black" and "universal" music
  • Coda: beyond color-blind narratives: reading behind the scenes of Paris blues.