Le jazz
Subtitle: jazz and French cultural identity
By: Matthew F. Jordan.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780252035166; 9780252077067
Subjects: Jazz -- France -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Vamp on the meaning of jazz : the cakewalk comes to town; title: The first wave : jazz and cultural recovery; title: Jazz and the modern public in the age of mechanical reproduction; title: La revue nègre, ethnography, and cultural hybridity; title: The jazz-hot years; title: Zazou dans le Métro : occupation, swing, and the battle for la jeunesse; title: Assimilation, absence, and the liberation of French discourse on jazz.