Le Tumulte Noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900-1930

by Jody Blake

Book Overview

In France of the early twentieth-century, the term art n?gre was as likely to refer to the black music and dance of America as to the sculpture of Africa. Indeed, music and dance, which both racial theorists and novelists portrayed as the "primitive" arts par excellence, were widely believed to exemplify the "genius" of blacks. In Le Tumulte noir, Jody Blake traces the profound impact African sculpture and African American music and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271023392
• ISBN13: 9780271023397
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.8" x 11.4"