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Some of these days : black stars, jazz aesthetics, and modernist culture / James Donald.
'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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780199354023
- ISBN: 0199354022
- ISBN: 9780199354047
- ISBN: 0199354049
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | ""Cover""; ""Some of These Days""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction: A Migration of Stars""; ""1 New Negro: Paul Robeson�s Formation in Harlem""; ""2 Between the Jungle and the Skyscraper: Josephine Baker in Paris and Berlin""; ""3 Ballet mécanique: Jazz Aesthetics and Modernist Film""; ""4 Jazz in Stone and Steel: Josephine Baker and Modern Architecture""; ""5 Borderlines: Race, Cosmopolitanism, and the Modern Uncanny""; ""Color Plates""; ""6 Down the River of Dreams: Songs of Exile and Nostalgia""; ""7 Here I Stand: Performing Politics"" ""Coda: Nick�s Bar, New York City""""Acknowledgments""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""List of Plates (Plates between pages 128 and 129)""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. Music. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Music. |
