After Django : making jazz in postwar France /

Perchard, Tom, 1976-

After Django : making jazz in postwar France / Tom Perchard. - Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (viii, 297 pages) - Jazz perspectives .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Histories of jazz in France -- Hugues Panassié's supernatural swing : criticism, politics and the iconic jazz recording -- Jazz between art and entertainment : André Hodeir and Thelonious Monk -- Cool going cold : Miles Davis and Ascenseur pour l'échafaud -- Barney Wilen : phantoms and freedom -- Looking for something we don't yet know : towards a French jazz -- A good jazzman is a dead jazzman.



9780472120758


Jazz--History and criticism.--France--1941-1950
Jazz--History and criticism.--France--1951-1960
Jazz--History and criticism.--France--1961-1970


Electronic Books.

ML3509 / .A384 2015