Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France

by Siv B. Lie

Django Generations shows how relationships between racial identities, jazz, and national belonging become entangled in France.

Jazz manouche--a genre known best for its energetic, guitar-centric swing tunes--is among France's most celebrated musical practices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It centers on the recorded work of famed guitarist Django Reinhardt and is named for the ethnoracial subgroup of Romanies (also...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022681081X
• ISBN13: 9780226810812
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"