Some of these days : black stars, jazz aesthetics, and modernist culture /

'Some of These Days' shows how interwar European audiences, artists, and intellectuals particularly associated with modernism, used Black American culture - for which 'jazz' was often a shorthand - to negotiate the disorientating experience of modernity and modernization. One man...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Donald, James
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Zusammenfassung:
'Some of These Days' shows how interwar European audiences, artists, and intellectuals particularly associated with modernism, used Black American culture - for which 'jazz' was often a shorthand - to negotiate the disorientating experience of modernity and modernization. One manifestation of this process was the fashionable Negrophilia of the 1920s, the decade in which the two most successful Black American stars of their era first made their names: Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson. The book is threaded around their careers, their travels, and their relationships.
Umfang:
1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-935403-0
0-19-935404-9
0-19-935402-2
Schlagworte:
African Americans in the performing arts.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Harlem Renaissance > Influence.
African Americans > Music > Influence.
African American theater > History > 20th century.
Modernism (Aesthetics) > United States > Influence.
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