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Author: Rachel Anne Gillett (Assistant Professor in Cultural History, Assistant Professor in Cultural History, Utrecht University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.60cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 16.00cm
Weight: 0.499kg
ISBN: 9780190842703
ISBN 10: 0190842709
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 31 March 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
An in-depth study of how kindred music-making traditions affected divergent cultural and political identities among the Black African, Caribbean, and African American networks in interwar Paris, this work offers richly engaging material for both connoisseurs of this story and newcomers. * Allison Blakely, Professor of European and Comparative History, Emeritus, Boston UniversityA * Gillett's superb analysis of jazz-age Paris reveals the polyphony of voices, music, and activism in the metropole. Her work reveals how the popularity of jazz among French audiences provided a point of contestation for colonial subjects to articulate their difference and belonging through rhythm and movement. * Jonathyne Briggs, Professor of History, Indiana University Northwest, and author of Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities, and Popular Music, 1958-1980 *
"""Gillett's superb analysis of jazz-age Paris reveals the polyphony of voices, music, and activism in the metropole. Her work reveals how the popularity of jazz among French audiences provided a point of contestation for colonial subjects to articulate their difference and belonging through rhythm and movement."" -- Jonathyne Briggs, Professor of History, Indiana University Northwest, and author of Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities, and Popular Music, 1958-1980 ""An in-depth study of how kindred music-making traditions affected divergent cultural and political identities among the Black African, Caribbean, and African American networks in interwar Paris, this work offers richly engaging material for both connoisseurs of this story and newcomers."" -- Allison Blakely, Professor of European and Comparative History, Emeritus, Boston UniversityÂ"
Author Information
Rachel Anne Gillett lectures in cultural history at the University of Utrecht and writes about race, popular culture, and empire. She focuses on the French Empire but her interests range from Marvel movies, to early jazz, to rugby. Her writing appears in blogs and magazines as well as in academic literature and she can be heard on ""Unsettling Knowledge"", a podcast about how empire shaped European societies. She is deeply interested in how popular culture reflects and influences social and political life and has pursued that theme wherever she has lived and worked, from New Zealand, to America, to the Netherlands.
