Rachel Anne Gillett
Biographic Data
| ID | 1481644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Anne Gillett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillett |
| SIGNATURE | GILLETT R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5229-8636 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Roundtable
One hundred years after Paris last hosted, the Olympic and Paralympic Games were held in the French capital this summer. To mark this centenary, French History gathered a group of academics together to write blog posts in response to different aspects of Paris 2024. Their posts, which were originally hosted on the French History Network Blog, invited readers to delve into the historical, cultural and sporting references being evoked by the openin…
Soundscapes of Liberation
Journal Article Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France. By Celeste Day Moore Get access Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France. By Celeste Day Moore (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 312 pp. $104.95). Rachel Gillett Rachel Gillett Utrecht UniversityCenter for European Studies, Harvard University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Not Quite Postcolonial Paris
This essay explores the tensions of Paris as a not-yet-postcolonial city. It describes the experience of singing in a concert of patriotic music from the Napoleonic era while researching the impact of colonialism on French culture and on French colonial subjects and citizens. The author describes how this experience brought to life the academic literature on French universalism and on the nature of Paris as a colonial metropolis. A particular and…
Jazz women, gender politics, and the francophone Atlantic
This article explores the francophone bourgeoisie's class-based connection with advocates of race uplift in the United States, revealing the transnational similarities between middle-class French and American hopes and fears about racial representation through black “culture,” whether literary, artistic, or musical. It shows that, given this transnational context, jazz not only presented a real promise to black communities in representing their c…
Jazz and the Evolution of Black American Cosmopolitanism in Interwar Paris
This article shows that African American jazz performers created a cosmopolitan diasporic network through transatlantic touring during the interwar years. Successful black musicians and dancers lived in large international cities, or "cosmopolitan pleasure centers," to quote singer Florence Mills, and they performed in the international space of the nightclub. Most of them retained a strong sense of identity as black Americans and invoked their i…
Jazz and the Evolution of Black American Cosmopolitanism in Interwar Paris
This article shows that African American jazz performers created a cosmopolitan diasporic network through transatlantic touring during the interwar years. Successful black musicians and dancers lived in large international cities, or "cosmopolitan pleasure centers," to quote singer Florence Mills, and they performed in the international space of the nightclub. Most of them retained a strong sense of identity as black Americans and invoked their i…
Jazz and the Evolution of Black American Cosmopolitanism in Interwar Paris
This article shows that African American jazz performers created a cosmopolitan diasporic network through transatlantic touring during the interwar years. Successful black musicians and dancers lived in large international cities, or "cosmopolitan pleasure centers," to quote singer Florence Mills, and they performed in the international space of the nightclub. Most of them retained a strong sense of identity as black Americans and invoked their i…
Jazz women, gender politics, and the francophone Atlantic
This article explores the francophone bourgeoisie's class-based connection with advocates of race uplift in the United States, revealing the transnational similarities between middle-class French and American hopes and fears about racial representation through black “culture,” whether literary, artistic, or musical. It shows that, given this transnational context, jazz not only presented a real promise to black communities in representing their c…
Not Quite Postcolonial Paris
This essay explores the tensions of Paris as a not-yet-postcolonial city. It describes the experience of singing in a concert of patriotic music from the Napoleonic era while researching the impact of colonialism on French culture and on French colonial subjects and citizens. The author describes how this experience brought to life the academic literature on French universalism and on the nature of Paris as a colonial metropolis. A particular and…
Soundscapes of Liberation
Journal Article Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France. By Celeste Day Moore Get access Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France. By Celeste Day Moore (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 312 pp. $104.95). Rachel Gillett Rachel Gillett Utrecht UniversityCenter for European Studies, Harvard University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Roundtable
One hundred years after Paris last hosted, the Olympic and Paralympic Games were held in the French capital this summer. To mark this centenary, French History gathered a group of academics together to write blog posts in response to different aspects of Paris 2024. Their posts, which were originally hosted on the French History Network Blog, invited readers to delve into the historical, cultural and sporting references being evoked by the openin…
History (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works)