Scoring race Jazz, fiction and Francophone Africa
Frontcover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Scoring Race: Music, Writing, and Difference in a French Context -- Armstrong Plays Kinshasa -- The Philosophical Genealogy of the Racial Score -- Music, Language, and Scientific Racism -- France, Jazz, and the Racial Score -- 1 Jazz Fiction...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London
James Currey
2017
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| Schriftenreihe: | African articulations
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Frontcover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Scoring Race: Music, Writing, and Difference in a French Context -- Armstrong Plays Kinshasa -- The Philosophical Genealogy of the Racial Score -- Music, Language, and Scientific Racism -- France, Jazz, and the Racial Score -- 1 Jazz Fictions and the French Novel: Four Cases -- Believing the Score: Soupault's Le Nègre -- Jean-Paul Sartre and Existential Blackness -- Boris Vian and the Inescapable Score -- Abject Whiteness: Jazz Fiction Today -- 2 Querying Jazz: Early Francophone African Engagements with the Racial Score -- Jazz Nightmares: Mirages de Paris -- Absolute Music: Emmanuel Dongala's 'Jazz et vin de palme' and 'A Love Supreme' -- Trop de soleil tue l'amour: Jazz and the End of Time -- 3 Challenging the Score: Francophone African Reconfigurations of Jazz Today -- Kangni Alem: Mirages d'Afrique -- Coltrane's in the (Whore-)House: Fiston Mwanza Mujila's Tram 83 and the Rewriting of Emmanuel Dongala -- Vultures at the Crossroads: Abdourahman Waberi's La Divine Chanson -- Jazz Ain't Nothing But a Sandwich -- Conclusion -- 4 Black Bodies, Black Sounds: Film and the Racial Score -- Incarnating the Score: Josephine Baker and Princesse Tam-Tam -- Exploding/Exploring the Score: Karmen Geï and the Many Modalities of African Jazz -- Bibliography -- Index Pim Higginson draws on race theory, aesthetics, cultural studies, musicology, and postcolonial studies to examine the convergence of aesthetics and race in Western thought and to explore its impact on Francophone African literature. France's "tumulte noir," the jazz craze between the two world wars, consolidated an aesthetic model present in Western philosophy since Plato that coalesced into French "scientific" racism over the 19th century; a model which formalized the notion of music as black. France's "jazzophilia" codified what the author names the "racial score:" simultaneously an archive and script that, in defining jazz as "black music," has had wide-reaching effects on contemporary perceptions of the artistic and political efficacy of black writers, musicians, and their aesthetic productions. Reading avant-garde French writers Sartre and Soupault to prize-winning Francophone authors Congolese Emmanuel Dongala to Cameroonian Leonora Miano, Scoring Race explores how jazz masters Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, and John Coltrane became touchstones for claims to African authorship and aesthetic subjectivity across the long twentieth century. This volume focuses on how this naturalization of black musicality occurred and its impact on Francophone African writers and filmmakers for whom the idea of their own essential musicality represented an epistemological obstacle |
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| Beschreibung: | ix, 237 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781847011558 978-1-84701-155-8 9781847011770 978-1-84701-177-0 |