Description: Django Generations : Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France, Hardcover by Lie, Siv B., ISBN 022681081X, ISBN-13 9780226810812, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 ethnoracial subgroup of Romanies (also known, often pejoratively, as “Gypsies”) to which Reinhardt belonged. French Manouches are publicly lauded as bearers of this jazz tradition, and many take pleasure and pride in the practice while at the same time facing pervasive discrimination. 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.
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Book Title: Django Generations : Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Man
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Django Generations : Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: History & Criticism, Ethnomusicology, Europe / France, Genres & Styles / Jazz
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.1 Oz
Subject Area: Music, History
Author: Siv B. Lie
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
