Download or read book Le jazz en France written by Olivier Brard and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Le Jazz written by Matthew F. Jordan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Le Jazz, Matthew F. Jordan deftly blends textual analysis, critical theory, and cultural history in a wide-ranging and highly readable account of how jazz progressed from a foreign cultural innovation met with resistance by French traditionalists to a naturalized component of the country's identity. Jordan draws on sources including ephemeral critical writing in the press and twentieth-century French literature to trace the country's reception of jazz, from the Cakewalk dance craze and the music's significance as a harbinger of cultural recovery after World War II to its place within French ethnography and cultural hybridity. Countering the histories of jazz's celebratory reception in France, Jordan delves in to the reluctance of many French citizens to accept jazz with the same enthusiasm as the liberal humanists and cosmopolitan crowds of the 1930s. Jordan argues that some listeners and critics perceived jazz as a threat to traditional French culture, and only as France modernized its identity did jazz become compatible with notions of Frenchness. Le Jazz speaks to the power of enlivened debate about popular culture, art, and expression as the means for constructing a vibrant cultural identity, revealing crucial keys to understanding how the French have come to see themselves in the postwar world.
Download or read book Jazz and Postwar French Identity written by Elizabeth Vihlen McGregor and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of a shifting domestic and international status quo that was evolving in the decades following World War II, French audiences used jazz as a means of negotiating a wide range of issues that were pressing to them and to their fellow citizens. Despite the fact that jazz was fundamentally linked to the multicultural through its origins in the hands of African-American musicians, happenings within the French jazz public reflected much about France’s postwar society. In the minds of many, jazz was connected to youth culture, but instead of challenging traditional gender expectations, the music tended to reinforce long-held stereotypes. French critics, musicians, and fans contended with the reality of American superpower strength and often strove to elevate their own country’s stature in relation to the United States by finding fault with American consumer society and foreign policy aims. Jazz audiences used this music to condemn American racism and to support the American civil rights movement, expressing strong reservations about the American way of life. French musicians lobbied to create professional opportunities for themselves, and some went so far as to create a union that endorsed preferential treatment for French nationals. As France became more ethnically and religiously diverse due immigration from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, French jazz critics and fans noted the insidious appearance of racism in their own country and had to contend with how their own citizens would address the changing demographics of the nation, even if they continued to insist that racism was more prevalent in the United States. As independence movements brought an end to the French empire, jazz enthusiasts from both former colonies and France had to reenvision their relationship to jazz and to the music’s international audiences. In these postwar decades, the French were working to preserve a distinct national identity in the face of weakened global authority, most forcefully represented by decolonization and American hegemony. Through this originally African American music, French listeners, commentators, and musicians participated in a process that both challenged and reinforced ideas about their own culture and nation.
Download or read book Une histoire du jazz en France written by Laurent Cugny and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "La France, fille aînée du jazz ? C'est ce qui se pense, se dit parfois, souvent. L'histoire du jazz en France est en tout cas longue et très riche, de musiques, de musiciens, d'événements, de textes, de pensées, de passions, de conflits. Le projet de cette histoire du jazz en France se conforme à un déroulement chronologique, depuis les débuts jusqu'à 1990. Les volumes suivants couvriront respectivement les périodes 1930-1944, 19451959 et 1960-1990. Où faire remonter les débuts ? À l'arrivée en France des Harlem Hellfighters de James Reese Europe dans les derniers jours de 1917 ? À la première apparition écrite du mot "jazz" à l'aube de 1918 ? La réponse est donnée par le parti pris par l'auteur : celui de ne pas raconter seulement l'histoire des musiques et des musiciens, mais de placer celle-ci dans le contexte général de la société française, de ses tendances conservatrices ou progressistes, de ses blocages et de ses évolutions. C'est ainsi qu'on en est amené à remonter aussi loin que le milieu du XIXe, quand des musiciens (faussement ou réellement) noirs apparaissent sur des scènes parisiennes. On parvient de la sorte à retracer une lente maturation, jusqu'à une première articulation placée en 1929, quand s'observe la convergence de mutations sociétales et musicales. Quand, donc, a vraiment commencé le jazz en France ? Et d'abord, que signifie le mot en 1918, quand il est imprimé pour la première fois dans Le Gaulois et Le Figaro ? Est-il arrivé déjà formé des États-Unis ? Qui en furent les acteurs, français, étatsuniens, originaires d'autres pays, musiciens, médiateurs de toutes sortes ? Quels mouvements traversaient les sociétés françaises qu'il a rencontrées ? Quels cadres de pensée ont pu permettre qu'il s'implante, durablement comme on le sait ? Telles sont les questions auxquelles se confronte le volume d'ouverture de cette première histoire générale du jazz en France."--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book La France du jazz written by Denis Martin and published by Parenthèses Editions. This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dans le jazz, c'est-à-dire à la fois dans les musiques que ce vocable recouvre, dans les usages qui sont faits du terme et dans les projections dont il est le prétexte, se combinent la modernité technique et la spontanéité primitive, l'individualisme et la communauté, la décence pompeuse (Whiteman) et la sensualité débridée (Joséphine Baker), l'Amérique et l'Afrique. Le livre de Denis-Constant Martin et d'Olivier Roueff n'est pas qu'une nouvelle histoire des débuts du jazz en France car, une fois tracée l'histoire de son implantation, de ses bourgeonnements et de son influence sur les musiques populaires en France, il se penche sur les manières de s'approprier sa puissance d'évocation, à travers la diversité et les contradictions des discours qu'il a suscités et qui ont marqué les premiers pas de sa vie dans notre pays. En effet, le jazz, dès son arrivée en France, est devenu un langage utile pour parler d'autre chose. La musique afro-américaine, érigée en enjeu des années vingt aux années cinquante, est prise dans des débats qui ne la concernent pas mais contribuent à lui donner ses formes le jazz sert à parler de la France qui se cherche en ces moments ambigus des sorties des deux guerres mondiales et des débuts de la décolonisation. Son métissage, ses évolutions, que certains acceptent difficilement ou refusent carrément, en font un véhicule approprié pour disputer de problèmes essentiels : l'identité et la modernité, les rapports qu'elles entretiennent. En annexe, un grand nombre d'articles parus dans des journaux ou revues françaises entre 1918 et 1931 (donc parmi les premiers qui évoquèrent le jazz) sont à nouveau rendus accessibles au public.
Download or read book Le jazz la lettre written by Yannick Séité and published by Presses Universitaires de France - PUF. This book was released on 2010 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un siècle après sa naissance, il est temps de faire le bilan des relations du jazz avec la littérature. Le lecteur de cette histoire jazzée de la littérature (à moins qu'il ne s'agisse d'une histoire littéraire du jazz) découvrira par exemple comment Mazie Mullins a successivement appris l'orgue à Fats Waller, la danse à Philippe Soupault et l'harmonie à Maurice Ravel, dans quelles circonstances Jean Vilar et Duke Ellington ont fait connaissance et quelle musique a procédé de cette rencontre. Il apprendra comment le jazz a failli tuer Aragon, pourquoi Beckett et Bechet se sont côtoyés dans le Paris des années 1920 et comment c'est en France que Cocteau et Reverdy inventent un genre de la jazz poetry que la beat generation devait faire fleurir trente années plus tard en Californie. Pages de début Avertissement Le jazz comme modèle Chapitre I. Ce que le jazz pense de la littérature Chapitre II. Portrait de l'écrivain en jazzman Phonographe/Typographe Chapitre III. Cocteau poète phonographe Chapitre IV. Reverdy poète typographe Le vent mystérieux Chapitre V. Automatisme et improviste Chapitre VI. L'éros surréaliste et le jazz Chapitre VII. Leiris comme synthèse Lectures d'Ellington Chapitre VIII. Un si suave tonnerre Chapitre IX. Turcaret Chapitre X et conclusif. Le son du sens RemerciementsIndex Pages de fin.
Download or read book JAZZ EN FRANCE 1944 1963 written by Ludovic Tournès and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CE TRAVAIL DECRIT L'HISTOIRE DE LA PENETRATION DU JAZZ EN FRANCE ET ANALYSE LES FACTEURS QUI ONT ABOUTIT A SON INTEGRATION DANS LE PAYSAGE CULTUREL HEXAGONAL, CONCRETISE NOTAMMENT PAR L'APPARITION DE MUSICIENS DE JAZZ FRANCAIS DE RENOMMEE INTERNATIONALE DES LE MILIEU DES ANNEES CINQUANTE. IL MONTRE COMMENT LE NOYAU D'AMATEURS PURISTES QUI S'EST FORME DANS LES ANNEES TRENTE JOUE UN ROLE MAJEUR DANS CE PROCESSUS D'ACCULTURATION, IDENTIFIANT CETTE MUSIQUE COMME UN OBJET ESTHETIQUE ORIGINAL (LA "MUSIQUE NOIRE AMERICAINE") DIGNE D'INTERET, ET ORGANISANT SA DIFFUSION EN FRANCE, DIFFUSION QUI COMPREND AUSSI BIEN L'ORGANISATION DE CONCERTS AVEC DES MUSICIENS AMERICAINS QUE L'ENREGISTREMENT DE DISQUES, AINSI QUE L'INVESTISSEMENT DES MEDIAS (PRESSE, RADIO, TELEVISION) AFIN DE FAIRE CONNAITRE CETTE NOUVELLE FORME D'ART AU GRAND PUBLIC. DES LE MILIEU DES ANNEES CINQUANTE, CETTE ENTREPRISE EST SUR LA VOIE DE LA REUSSITE, COMME LE MONTRE LA FREQUENTATION DES CONCERTS DONT LE PUBLIC SE COMPTE EN DIZAINES ET MEME EN CENTAINES DE MILLIERS, SI L'ON Y INCLUT LE NOMBRE DE CONCERTS DE JAZZ PRENANT PLACE DANS LES SPECTACLES DE MUSIC-HALL, GENRE EN PLEINE RENAISSANCE AU COURS DES ANNEES CINQUANTE ET QUI CONSTITUE UN DES AGENTS MAJEURS DE LA POPULARISATION - DANS TOUS LES SENS DU TERME - DU JAZZ DANS LA SOCIETE FRANCAISE, A LA FOIS PARCE QU'IL DRAINE UN PUBLIC NOMBREUX MAIS AUSSI PARCE QU'IL EST LE LIEU DE RENCONTRE ENTRE LE JAZZ ET LA MUSIQUE DE VARIETE FRANCAISE. CELLE-CI VA ETRE RENOUVELEE DE FOND EN COMBLE AU COURS DES ANNEES CINQUANTE PAR LA MUSIQUE VENUE DES ETATS-UNIS, CONTRIBUANT A UNE DIFFUSION EN PROFONDEUR DES SONORITES DU JAZZ DANS LE PAYSAGE CULTUREL HEXAGONAL. LE PROCESSUS D'ACCULTURATION EST EN OUTRE REPLACE DANS LE CONTEXTE POLITIQUE, ECONOMIQUE, SOCIAL ET RELIGIEUX DE LA FRANCE CONTEMPORAINE, MONTRANT NOTAMMENT LES FONDEMENTS IDEOLOGIQUES DES DIVERS DISCOURS SUR LE JAZZ ET LEUR TRADUCTION SUR LES FORMES DE SOCIABILITES D'AMATEURS, SUR LA GESTION DE SA DIFFUSION, AINSI QUE SUR L'ATTITUDE DES AMATEURS PAR RAPPORT AUX MUSICIENS FRANCAIS QUI EMERGENT SUR LA SCENE CULTURELLE A PARTIR DE LA FIN DES ANNEES QUARANTE ET VONT LONGTEMPS SE HEURTER A UN RACISME A REBOURS DE LA PART DU PUBLIC, AVANT QU'UN TIMIDE MOUVEMENT DE RECONNAISSANCE NE SE MANIFESTE A LA FIN DES ANNEES CINQUANTE
Download or read book Made in France written by Gérôme Guibert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made in France: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary French popular music. The volume consists of essays by scholars of French popular music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in France. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in France, followed by essays that are organized into thematic sections: The Mutations of French Popular Music During the "Trente Glorieuses"; Politicising Popular Music; Assimilation, Appropriation, French Specificity; and From Digital Stakes to Cultural Heritage: French Contemporary Topics. Contributors: Christian Béthune Juliette Dalbavie Gérôme Guibert Fabien Hein Olivier Julien Marc Kaiser Barbara Lebrun David Looseley Stéphanie Molinero Anne Petiau Cécile Prévost-Thomas Vincent Rouzé Catherine Rudent Matthieu Saladin Jedediah Sklower Raphaël Suire Florence Tamagne
Download or read book Making Jazz French written by Jeffrey H. Jackson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the world wars, Paris welcomed not only a number of glamorous American expatriates, including Josephine Baker and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also a dynamic musical style emerging in the United States: jazz. Roaring through cabarets, music halls, and dance clubs, the upbeat, syncopated rhythms of jazz soon added to the allure of Paris as a center of international nightlife and cutting-edge modern culture. In Making Jazz French, Jeffrey H. Jackson examines not only how and why jazz became so widely performed in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s but also why it was so controversial. Drawing on memoirs, press accounts, and cultural criticism, Jackson uses the history of jazz in Paris to illuminate the challenges confounding French national identity during the interwar years. As he explains, many French people initially regarded jazz as alien because of its associations with America and Africa. Some reveled in its explosive energy and the exoticism of its racial connotations, while others saw it as a dangerous reversal of France’s most cherished notions of "civilization." At the same time, many French musicians, though not threatened by jazz as a musical style, feared their jobs would vanish with the arrival of American performers. By the 1930s, however, a core group of French fans, critics, and musicians had incorporated jazz into the French entertainment tradition. Today it is an integral part of Parisian musical performance. In showing how jazz became French, Jackson reveals some of the ways a musical form created in the United States became an international phenomenon and acquired new meanings unique to the places where it was heard and performed.
Download or read book LES MUSICIENS DE JAZZ EN FRANCE written by Philippe Coulangeon and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Réhabilités au début des années quatre-vingt par une entrée dans la sphère des arts subventionnés, les musiciens de jazz évoluent aujourd'hui dans un univers incertain. Cette étude analyse les formes particulières atypiques d'emploi qu'expérimentent aujourd'hui les musiciens de jazz français (mêlant les résidus d'économie informelle de l'univers traditionnel des clubs et des emplois " normés " du domaine de la culture subventionnée) et l'influence qu'elles exercent sur l'évolution des formes musicales.
Download or read book Jazz and Machine Age Imperialism written by Jeremy F. Lane and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking study of the reception of jazz among French-speaking black intellectuals between 1918 and 1945
Download or read book Harlem in Montmartre written by William A. Shack and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-09-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates the expatriate African American community of jazz musicians that thrived in the Montmartre district of Paris in the '20s and '30s and helped turn the "city of lights" into the major jazz capital it remains today.
Download or read book Paris Blues written by Andy Fry and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jazz Age. The phrase conjures images of Louis Armstrong holding court at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, Duke Ellington dazzling crowds at the Cotton Club in Harlem, and star singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. But the Jazz Age was every bit as much of a Paris phenomenon as it was a Chicago and New York scene. In Paris Blues, Andy Fry provides an alternative history of African American music and musicians in France, one that looks beyond familiar personalities and well-rehearsed stories. He pinpoints key issues of race and nation in France’s complicated jazz history from the 1920s through the 1950s. While he deals with many of the traditional icons—such as Josephine Baker, Django Reinhardt, and Sidney Bechet, among others—what he asks is how they came to be so iconic, and what their stories hide as well as what they preserve. Fry focuses throughout on early jazz and swing but includes its re-creation—reinvention—in the 1950s. Along the way, he pays tribute to forgotten traditions such as black musical theater, white show bands, and French wartime swing. Paris Blues provides a nuanced account of the French reception of African Americans and their music and contributes greatly to a growing literature on jazz, race, and nation in France.
Download or read book Afromodernisms written by Fionnghuala Sweeney and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance & its impact on modernist studies. These 10 new chapters stretch and challenge current canonical configurations of modernism in two key ways: by considering the centrality of black artists, writers and intellectuals as key actors and core presences in the development of a modernist avant-garde; and by interrogating 'blackness' as an aesthetic and political category at critical moments during the twentieth century. This is the first book-length publication to explore the term 'Afromodernisms' and the first study to address together the cognate fields of modernism and the black Atlantic.
Download or read book Soundscapes of Liberation written by Celeste Day Moore and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Soundscapes of Liberation, Celeste Day Moore traces the popularization of African American music in postwar France, where it signaled new forms of power and protest. Moore surveys a wide range of musical genres, soundscapes, and media: the US military's wartime records and radio programs; the French record industry's catalogs of blues, jazz, and R&B recordings; the translations of jazz memoirs; a provincial choir specializing in spirituals; and US State Department-produced radio programs that broadcast jazz and gospel across the French empire. In each of these contexts, individual intermediaries such as educators, producers, writers, and radio deejays imbued African American music with new meaning, value, and political power. Their work resonated among diverse Francophone audiences and transformed the lives and labor of many African American musicians, who found financial and personal success as well as discrimination in France. By showing how the popularity of African American music was intertwined with contemporary structures of racism and imperialism, Moore demonstrates this music's centrality to postwar France and the convergence of decolonization, the expanding globalized economy, the Cold War, and worldwide liberation movements.
Download or read book New Orleans sur Seine written by Ludovic Tournès and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce livre retrace le parcours étonnant d'une musique apparemment étrangère à nos traditions artistiques mais qui, en l'espace de quelques décennies, s'est enracinée profondément dans le paysage culturel français et est passée du statut de musique populaire méprisée à celui d'art à la légitimité aujourd'hui incontestée. L'histoire commence en 1917 avec l'arrivée des troupes américaines et avec les premières revues de music-hall qui suscitent l'engouement d'un public sensible à la nouveauté rythmique. Mais il faut attendre les années trente et l'action décisive d'un noyau d'amateurs puristes emmenés par Hugues Panassié et Charles Delaunay pour que le jazz commence à être reconnu comme un art véritable, distinct de la musique de variété. Un travail en profondeur est alors mené, visant à faire connaître, comprendre et diffuser cette musique qui fascine un public grandissant : un réseau associatif couvrant l'ensemble du territoire se structure peu à peu ; des tournées sont organisées (Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie...), tandis que les amateurs devenus entrepreneurs de spectacles fondent les premiers festivals et salons du jazz au monde ; des compagnies de disques voient le jour et peu à peu, les médias ouvrent leurs colonnes, leurs antennes et leurs écrans à une nouvelle musique défendue âprement par des critiques batailleurs et dont les rencontres avec d'autres modes d'expression tels que la littérature, le cinéma ou la peinture manifestent la fécondité artistique. Pionnière dans la reconnaissance du jazz, la France devient une terre d'accueil pour de nombreux musiciens qui viennent s'y établir : Sidney Bechet, Kenny Clarke, Mezz Mezzrow, Bill Coleman et bien d'autres. A leur contact se forment des artistes français qui, après les précurseurs Django Reinhardt et Stéphane Grappelli, apparaissent en nombre dès le lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale : avec Martial Solal, Barney Wilen, André Hodeir, Michel Portal, Daniel Humair, Didier Lockwood ou Michel Petrucciani, chaque décennie aura vu des talents s'imposer de plus en plus nombreux sur la scène internationale et conquérir les faveurs du public, témoignant d'une installation dans le paysage culturel français qui connaît son point d'orgue en 1986 avec la création de l'Orchestre national de jazz. Premier de cette importance jamais écrit sur le sujet, l'ouvrage est enrichi de nombreux documents iconographiques inédits.
Download or read book Django written by Michael Dregni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les Paul, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, Jerry Garcia, Chet Atkins, and many others. Yet there is no major biography of Reinhardt. Now, in Django, Michael Dregni offers a definitive portrait of this great guitarist. Handsome, charismatic, childlike, and unpredictable, Reinhardt was a character out of a picaresque novel. Born in a gypsy caravan at a crossroads in Belgium, he was almost killed in a freak fire that burned half of his body and left his left hand twisted into a claw. But with this maimed left hand flying over the frets and his right hand plucking at dizzying speed, Django became Europe's most famous jazz musician, commanding exorbitant fees--and spending the money as fast as he made it. Dregni not only chronicles this remarkably colorful life--including a fascinating account of gypsy culture--but he also sheds much light on Django's musicianship. He examines his long musical partnership with violinist Stéphane Grappelli--the one suave and smooth, the other sharper and more dissonant--and he traces the evolution of their novel string jazz ensemble, Quintette du Hot Club de France. Indeed, the author spotlights Django's amazing musical diversity, describing his swing-styled Nouveau Quintette, his big band Django's Music, and his later bebop ensemble, as well as his many compositions, including symphonic pieces influenced by Ravel and Debussy and his unfinished organ mass inspired by Bach. And along the way, the author offers vivid snapshots of the jazz scene in Paris--colorful portraits of Josephine Baker, Bricktop, Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, and countless others--and of Django's vagabond wanderings around France, Europe, and the United States, where he toured with Duke Ellington. Capturing the extraordinary life and times of one of the great musicians of the twentieth century, Django is a must-read portrait of a true original.
