Jazz et société sous l'Occupation

Jazz, regarded by the Nazis as "Black-Jewish-English-Saxon" music, paradoxically enjoyed great success during the Occupation. The author demonstrates this through concert and radio programs and recordings. But if we can speak of a golden age of "French jazz", with Django Reinhardt in particular, American jazz standards, whether Frenchized or not for reasons of caution - Lady, Be Good became Madame, soyez bonne - were not absent from the repertoire of musicians during these dark years.
Jazz, the music of the young, of the zazous, did not fit in well with Marshal Pétain's plans for cultural renewal, and was certainly to be classified under the heading of "unhealthy excitements"...
But the author is not only interested in jazz in the capital, and shows the vitality of many provincial hot clubs.

Second-hand book in very good condition

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