Le Tumulte Noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900-1930

Le Tumulte Noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900-1930
ISBN-10
0271017538
ISBN-13
9780271017532
Category
Art
Pages
207
Language
English
Published
1999-01-01
Publisher
Penn State Press
Author
Jody Blake

Description

Jody Blake demonstrates in this book that although the impact of African-American music and dance in France was constant from 1900 to 1930, it was not unchanging. This was due in part to the stylistic development and diversity of African-American music and dance, from the prewar cakewalk and ragtime to the postwar Charleston and jazz. Successive groups of modernists, beginning with the Matisse and Picasso circle in the 1900s and concluding with the Surrealists and Purists in the 1920s, constructed different versions of la musique and la danse negre. Manifested in creative and critical works, these responses to African-American music and dance reflected the modernists' varying artistic agendas and historical climates.

Similar books