Jazz diasporas [electronic resource] : 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...
| Uniform Title: | Music of the African diaspora ;
18. |
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| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Music of the African diaspora ;
18. |
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| Variant Title: |
Race, music, and migration in post-World War II Paris
Jazz Diasporas: Race, Music, and Migration in Post-World War II Paris |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Introduction: migrating jazz people and identities
- Performing jazz diaspora with Sidney Bechet
- Jazz at home in France: French jazz musicians on the warpath to "authentic" jazz
- Inez Cavanaugh: creating and 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.