Title Django generations : hearing ethnorace, citizenship, and jazz manouche in France / Siv B. Lie

Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (275 pages) Series Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Chicago studies in ethnomusicology. Contents Introduction -- Making jazz manouche -- Cultural activism's living legacies -- Generic ontologies and the stakes of refusal -- The sound of feeling -- heritage stories -- Conclusion Summary Django Generations shows how relationships between racial identities, jazz, and national belonging become entangled in France. Jazz manouche--a genre known best for its energetic, guitar-centric swing tunes--is among France's most celebrated musical practices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It centers on the recorded work of famed guitarist Django Reinhardt and is named for the ethnoracial subgroup of Romanies (also known, often pejoratively, as "Gypsies") to which Reinhardt belonged. French Manouches are publicly lauded as bearers of this jazz tradition, and many take pleasure and pride in the practice while at the same time facing pervasive discrimination. Jazz manouche uncovers a contradiction at the heart of France's assimilationist republican ideals: the music is portrayed as quintessentially French even as Manouches themselves endure treatment as racial others. In this book, Siv B. Lie explores how this music is used to construct divergent ethnoracial and national identities in a context where discussions of race are otherwise censured. Weaving together ethnographic and historical analysis, Lie shows that jazz manouche becomes a source of profound ambivalence as it generates ethnoracial difference and socioeconomic exclusion. As the first full-length ethnographic study of French jazz to be published in English, this book enriches anthropological, ethnomusicological, and historical scholarship on global jazz, race and ethnicity, and citizenship while showing how music can be an important but insufficient tool in struggles for racial and economic justice Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Reinhardt, Django, 1910-1953 -- Influence SUBJECT Reinhardt, Django, 1910-1953 fast Subject Jazz -- Social aspects -- France Music and race -- France Musicians, Romani -- France Romanies -- Music -- Political aspects -- France Romanies -- Music -- Social aspects -- France Romanies -- France -- Ethnic identity Jazz musicians -- France MUSIC -- General. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Jazz musicians Jazz -- Social aspects Music and race Musicians, Romani Romanies -- Ethnic identity France Form Electronic book ISBN 022681095X 9780226810959 022681100X 9780226811000

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