Celeste Day Moore

Soundscapes of Liberation

African American Music in Postwar France

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Produktbeschreibung

Celeste Day Moore traces the popularity of African American music in postwar France to outline how it came to signify both state power and liberation for Francophone audiences throughout the world.

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Produktdetails

• Refiguring American Music
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9781478013761
• ISBN-10: 1478013761
• Artikelnr.: 60694140

Autorenporträt

Celeste Day Moore is Assistant Professor of History at Hamilton College.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction: Making Soundwaves  1
1. Jazz en Liberté: The US Military and the Soundscapes of Liberation  17
2. Writing Black, Talking Back: Jazz and the Value of African American
Identity  43
3. Spinning Race: The French Record Industry and the Production of African
American Music  71
4. Speaking in Tongues: The Negro Spiritual and the Circuits of Black
Internationalism  103
5. The Voice of America: Radio, Race, and the Sounds of the Cold War  133
6. Liberation Revisited: African American Music and the Postcolonial
Landscape  161
Epilogue: Sounding like a Revolution  195
Notes  201
Sources  251
Index  283