Making Jazz French

by Jackson, Jeffrey H.; Joseph, Gilbert M.; Rosenberg, Emily S.

• ISBN13: 9780822331247
• ISBN10: 0822331241
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"Jeffrey H. Jackson's work is unique in providing a more detailed history of jazz in interwar France than anything yet in print (certainly in English). Jackson offers a new, rather unusual perspective, concentrating on the ways jazz was integrated into national practices and traditions, rather than portraying it as simply a foreign intrusion into national life. This is a very rich approach to cultural history, offering a far more complex and nuanced understanding of the process of trans-Atlantic cultural interchange than top-down perspectives."--Tyler Stovall, coeditor of "The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France"

Author Biography

Jeffrey H. Jackson is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Rhodes College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
The Arrival of Jazz	13	(21)
The Spread of Jazz	34	(18)
Jazz and the City of Paris	52	(19)
The Meanings of Jazz: America, Negre, and Civilization	71	(33)
Making Jazz Familiar: Music Halls and the Avant-Garde	104	(19)
Making Jazz French: Parisian Musicians and Jazz Fans	123	(20)
New Bands and New Tensions: Jazz and the Labor Problem	143	(11)
The Discovery of Hot Jazz	154	(37)
Epilogue	191	(14)
Appendix: Histories of Jazz in Interwar France	205	(6)
Notes	211	(44)
Selected Bibliography	255	(6)
Index	261