Strains of Dissent

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

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-01-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt408 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRhetoric & Public Affairs
Antal sidor255
FörlagMichigan State University Press
ISBN9781611863055

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Språkvetenskap och lingvistik inom Språk och ordböcker
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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

“Strains of Dissent is a phenomenal book. Jakes excavates an impressive archive of source material to explore how music facilitated rhetorical forms of resistance, survival, and national identification in occupied France. The narrative Jakes crafts is both compelling and insightful, looking to the participatory nature of music and its pivotal role in the symbolic contestation over national identity, gender performance, and colonial legacies.”—JEFFREY A. BENNETT, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, College of Arts andScience, Vanderbilt University