Le Tumulte Noir Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900-1930
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
- Publish date: 01/01/1999
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In early twentieth-century France, the term art negre was as likely to call to mind the music and dance of black America as it was to evoke the sculpture of black Africa. Indeed, music and dance, which racial theorists and exotic novelists portrayed as the "primitive" arts par excellence, were thought to exemplify the "genius" of blacks in all creative fields. In Le Tumulte noir, Jody Blake focuses on the impacts of African sculpture and African-American music and dance on Parisian popular entertainment and modernist art, literature, and performance.
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