Overview
During the German Occupation from 1940 to 1944, Resistance fighters, Parisian youth, and French prisoners of war mined a vast repertoire from a long national musical tradition and a burgeoning international entertainment industry, embracing music as a rhetorical resource with which to destabilize Nazi ideology and contest collaborationist Vichy propaganda. After the Liberation of 1944, popular music continued to mediate French political life, helping citizens to challenge American hegemony and recuperate their nation’s lost international standing. Ultimately, through song, French dissidents rejected Nazi subordination, the politics of collaboration, and American intervention and insisted upon a return to that trinity of traditional French values, liberté, egalité, fraternité. Strains of Dissent recovers the significance of music as a rhetorical means of survival, subversion, and national identity construction and illuminates the creative and cunning ways that individual citizens defied the Occupation outside of formal resistance networks and movements.
Full Product Details
Author: Kelly Jakes
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Imprint: Michigan State University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.408kg
ISBN: 9781611863055
ISBN 10: 1611863058
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 30 January 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Strains of Dissent is a phenomenal book. Jakes excavates an impressive archive of source material to explore how music facilitated rhetorical forms of resistance, survival, and national identification in occupied France. The narrative Jakes crafts is both compelling and insightful, looking to the participatory nature of music and its pivotal role in the symbolic contestation over national identity, gender performance, and colonial legacies. --JEFFREY A. BENNETT, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University
Strains of Dissent is a phenomenal book. Jakes excavates an impressive archive of source material to explore how music facilitated rhetorical forms of resistance, survival, and national identification in occupied France. The narrative Jakes crafts is both compelling and insightful, looking to the participatory nature of music and its pivotal role in the symbolic contestation over national identity, gender performance, and colonial legacies. --JEFFREY A. BENNETT, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University
Author Information
Kelly Jakes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University.
