Scoring race : jazz, fiction, and Francophone Africa /
Explores in depth how Francophone African authors and filmmakers have negotiated the French construction of jazz as the medium of an exoticized and radical alterity.
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| Hōputu: | Licensed eBooks |
| Reo: | Ingarihi |
| I whakaputaina: |
Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY :
James Currey is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd
2017.
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| Rangatū: | African articulations.
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| Urunga tuihono: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt1pwt4tq |
Rārangi ihirangi:
- Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Scoring Race: Music, Writing, and Difference in a French Context; Armstrong Plays Kinshasa; The Philosophical Genealogy of the Racial Score; Music, Language, and Scientific Racism; France, Jazz, and the Racial Score; 1 Jazz Fictions and the French Novel: Four Cases; Believing the Score: Soupault's Le Nègre; Jean-Paul Sartre and Existential Blackness; Boris Vian and the Inescapable Score; Abject Whiteness: Jazz Fiction Today; 2 Querying Jazz: Early Francophone African Engagements with the Racial Score; Jazz Nightmares: Mirages de Paris.
- Absolute Music: Emmanuel Dongala's 'Jazz et vin de palme' and 'A Love Supreme'Trop de soleil tue l'amour: Jazz and the End of Time; 3 Challenging the Score: Francophone African Reconfigurations of Jazz Today; Kangni Alem: Mirages d'Afrique; Coltrane's in the (Whore- )House: Fiston Mwanza Mujila's Tram 83 and the Rewriting of Emmanuel Dongala; Vultures at the Crossroads: Abdourahman Waberi's La Divine Chanson; Jazz Ain't Nothing But a Sandwich; Conclusion; 4 Black Bodies, Black Sounds: Film and the Racial Score; Incarnating the Score: Josephine Baker and Princesse Tam-Tam.
- Exploding/Exploring the Score: Karmen Geï and the Many Modalities of African JazzBibliography; Index.