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Author:

Braggs, Rashida K., 1976- author.

Title:

Jazz diasporas : race, music, and migration in post-World War II Paris / Rashida K. Braggs.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xvi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Jazz musicians--Paris--Paris--20th century.
African American musicians--Paris--Paris--20th century.
Jazz--Paris--Paris--History and criticism.
African American authors--Paris--Paris--20th century.
Paris (France)--Race relations--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.

Contents:

Performing diaspora with Sidney Bechet -- Jazz at home in France: French jazz musicians on the war path to "authentic" jazz -- Inez Cavanaugh: creating & 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.

Summary:

"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 based in Europe like writer and social critic James Baldwin--adopted a variety of strategies to cope with the cultural and social assumptions that greeted them throughout their careers in Paris, particularly in light of the cultural struggles over race and identity that gripped France as colonial conflicts like the Algerian War escalated. Through case studies of prominent musicians and thoughtful analysis of personal interviews, music, film, and literature, Rashida K. Braggs investigates the impact of this post-war musical migration. Examining a number of players in the jazz scene, including Sidney Bechet, Inez Cavanaugh, and Kenny Clarke, Braggs identifies how they performed both as musicians and as African Americans. The collaborations that they and other African Americans created with French musicians and critics complicated racial and cultural understandings of who could play and represent "authentic" jazz. Their role in French society challenged their American identity and illusions of France as a racial safe haven. In this post-war era of collapsing nations and empires, African American jazz players and their French counterparts destabilized set notions of identity. Sliding in and out of black and white and American and French identities, they created collaborative spaces for mobile and mobilized musical identities, what Braggs terms 'jazz diasporas.'"--Provided by publisher.

Series:

Music of the African diaspora ; 18

ISBN:

0520279352
9780520279353
0520279344
9780520279346

OCLC:

(OCoLC)910535843

LCCN:

2015026558

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)