Dancing with De Beauvoir
Jazz and the French
$52.99
- Paperback
241 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2004
Summary
Explores the powerful synergies between jazz and the French to show how jazz has helped shaped modern French culture and influenced cultural icons from Ravel, Matisse, Sartre and De Beauvoir to Derrida.
When live jazz arrived in France towards the end of World War I, it was seen from the start as a fertile symbol of other things. It was an embodiment of artistic freedom, it was modernism, it was America, it was African primitivism, sexual liberation, social decadence and moral decay. …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522851137 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522851134 |
| Author: | Colin Nettelbeck |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 241 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2004 |
| Weight: | 348g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 157mm x 21mm |
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About The Author
Colin Nettelbeck
Colin Nettelbeck is AR Chisholm Professor of French and Head of the School of Languages at the University of Melbourne. He has written many books and articles about twentieth century French literature, cinema and cultural history, including Forever French- Exile in the United States 1939-1945 (1993) and A Century of Cinema- Australian and French Connections (with Jane Warren and Wallace Kirsop, 1996). He is a jazz fan and sometime practitioner and, like Cole Porter, loves Paris in any season.
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