Scoring Race: Jazz, Fiction, and Francophone Africa

by Pim Higginson

Reveals the importance of the jazz craze in France between the two world wars and the French construction of jazz as a black music - an exoticization which had wide-reaching effects on the artistic output of the African diaspora and on contemporary perceptions of black writers, musicians and film makers.

What are the cultural implications of Louis Armstrong's 1960 visit to Africa? Why are so many postcolonial novels in French fascinated with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847011551
• ISBN13: 9781847011558
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: James Currey
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 6.2"