Presented to you through Paradigm Publishing Services
Duke University Press
Book
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
Soundscapes of Liberation
African American Music in Postwar France
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2021
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Celeste Day Moore is Assistant Professor of History at Hamilton College.
Reviews
“Celeste Day Moore takes us on a dazzling and deeply researched tour through the soundscapes and multisensory experiences of the Francophone Black world. Soundscapes of Liberation is indispensable reading for scholars and students of the African Diaspora, liberation projects, and the circulation of music in the twentieth century.”
-- Penny M. Von Eschen, author of Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
“Celeste Day Moore provides the best account of the process by which African American culture was popularized in postwar France at a time when France was negotiating its relationship to decolonization, American culture, and power writ large. This fascinating and detailed book made me think anew about things I thought I knew well.”
-- Daniel Widener, author of Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles
"What Moore describes is not a simple love affair between a music maligned at home and a country destined to embrace it. . . . Navigating broad territories, she moves from an era when African-American music could only be apprehended fragmentarily to the advent of mass broadcasting, long playing records, and the involvement of state powers. Although this history's outlines can feel familiar, it is approached in a fresh way."
-- Pierre Crépon The Wire
"Thoroughly researched, erudite, and well written, this volume is required reading for those who study the African diaspora and African American music. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers."
-- F. J. Hay Choice
"Soundscapes of Liberation is a meticulously, deeply, and broadly, researched work. It is well-written and compelling."
-- Brett A. Berliner Diplomatic History
“A valuable book that provides new dimensions to our understanding of the global reach of African American music, and especially of the institutions that bring the music to its fans. Moore offers vivid portraits of several indelible figures largely lost to history, and she does so with a light touch and appealing narrative voice that nonetheless carries the heft of impressive archival research done on three continents.”
-- Greg Barnhisel Journal of American History
“Celeste Day Moore has woven together a compelling book that sheds new light on the Black (American) experience in twentieth century France.”
-- Rachel Gillett Journal of Social History
"Complex, nuanced, and deeply informative."
-- Rodrigo Salido Moulinié Sound Studies
Topics
-
Download PDFPublicly Available
Frontmatter
i -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Contents
vii -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Abbreviations
ix -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Acknowledgments
xi -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Introduction Making Soundwaves
1 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
1 Jazz en liberté
17 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
2 Writing black, talking back
43 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
3 Spinning race
71 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
4 Speaking in tongues
103 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
5 The voice of America
133 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
6 Liberation revisited
161 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Epilogue
195 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Notes
201 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Sources
251 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Index
283
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
August 23, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9781478021995
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
312
This book is in the series
eBook ISBN:
9781478021995
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
