Strains of Dissent

Popular Music and Everyday Resistance in WWII France, 1940 - 1945

Kelly Jakes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

255 Seiten

2019
Michigan State University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61186-305-5 (ISBN)

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During the German Occupation from 1940 to 1944, Resistance fighters, Parisian youth, and French prisoners of war mined a vast repertoire from a long national musical tradition and a burgeoning international entertainment industry, embracing music as a rhetorical resource with which to destabilize Nazi ideology and contest collaborationist Vichy propaganda. After the Liberation of 1944, popular music continued to mediate French political life, helping citizens to challenge American hegemony and recuperate their nation’s lost international standing. Ultimately, through song, French dissidents rejected Nazi subordination, the politics of collaboration, and American intervention and insisted upon a return to that trinity of traditional French values, liberté, egalité, fraternité. Strains of Dissent recovers the significance of music as a rhetorical means of survival, subversion, and national identity construction and illuminates the creative and cunning ways that individual citizens defied the Occupation outside of formal resistance networks and movements.

Kelly Jakes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University.

Contents Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1. Repertoires of Resistance: Musical Resources for Reimagining the Nation Chapter 2. La France en Chantant: The Rhetorical Construction of French Identity in Songs of the Resistance Movement Chapter 3. Zazous in Zoot Suits: Race Play in Occupied Paris Chapter 4. From Prisoners to Men: Operettas on the POW Camp Stage Chapter 5. GI Jazz: Music and Power in Liberation France Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.12.2018
Reihe/Serie	Rhetoric & Public Affairs
Zusatzinfo	13
Verlagsort	East Lansing, MI
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-61186-305-8 / 1611863058
ISBN-13	978-1-61186-305-5 / 9781611863055
Zustand	Neuware