Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, And Jazz Manouche In Fr...

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, And Jazz Manouche In FranceISBN13:9780226810812ISBN10:022681081XAuthor:Lie, Siv B. (Author)Description:Django Generations Shows How Relationships Between Racial Identities, Jazz, And National Belonging Become Entangled In France Jazz Manouche--A Genre Known Best For Its Energetic, Guitar-Centric Swing Tunes--Is Among France's Most Celebrated Musical Practices Of The Twentieth And Twenty-First Centuries It Centers On The Recorded Work Of Famed Guitarist Django Reinhardt And Is Named For The Manouche Subgroup Of Romanies, Also Known Somewhat Pejoratively As Gypsies, To Which Reinhardt Belonged French Manouches Are Publicly Lauded As Bearers Of This Jazz Tradition, A Practice In Which Many Take Pleasure And Pride, While Facing Pervasive Discrimination At The Same Time Jazz Manouche Uncovers A Contradiction At The Heart Of France's Assimilationist Republican Ideals: The Music Is Portrayed As Quintessentially French Even As Manouches Themselves Endure Treatment As Racial Others In This Book, Siv B Lie Explores How This Music Is Used To Construct Divergent Ethnoracial And National Identities In A Context Where Discussions Of Race Are Otherwise Censured Weaving Together Ethnographic And Historical Analysis, Lie Shows That Jazz Manouche Becomes A Source Of Profound Ambivalence As It Generates Ethnoracial Difference And Socioeconomic Exclusion As The First Full-Length Ethnographic Study Of French Jazz To Be Published In English, This Book Enriches Anthropological, Ethnomusicological, And Historical Scholarship On Global Jazz, Race And Ethnicity, And Citizenship While Showing How Music Can Be An Important But Insufficient Tool In Struggles For Racial And Economic Justice Binding:Hardcover, HardcoverPublisher:University of Chicago PressPublication Date:2021-11-05Weight:0 lbsDimensions:Number of Pages:256Language:English

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