Rachel Gillett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3977986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Gillett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillett |
| SIGNATURE | GILLETT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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 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…
Music of the Great Depression
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…
Music of the Great Depression
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…
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…
History (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works)