| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Rhetoric and public affairs series |
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Rhetoric and public affairs series.
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| Contents |
Intro; 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 |
| Summary |
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 -- Publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 14, 2018) |
| Subject |
Popular music -- Political aspects -- France -- History -- 20th century
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Music and the war.
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Popular music -- France -- 1941-1950 -- History and criticism
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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Music and war
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Popular music
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Popular music -- Political aspects
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France
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1609175840 |
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9781609175849 |
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