
Strains of Dissent
Popular Music and Everyday Resistance in WWII France, 1940 - 1945
Kelly Jakes(Author)
Michigan State University Press
Will be published approx. on 1. January 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
255 pages
978-1-61186-305-5 (ISBN)
Description
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, liberte, egalite, fraternite. 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.
Reviews / Votes
"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 and
Science, Vanderbilt University
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing, MI
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
13
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61186-305-5 (9781611863055)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Kelly Jakes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University.
Content
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
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