Jean 'Django' Reinhardt

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Django Reinhardt

Entre le jazz et les gilia. Django Reinhardt

L Homme ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 39 (149) ◽  
pp. 203-208
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Digard
Keyword(s):  
Django Reinhardt

Placing Django: Narratives of heritage and race in a Parisian exhibition

2021 ◽  
pp. 095715582110074
Author(s):  
Siv B Lie
Keyword(s):  
White Identity ◽  
French Society ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Urban Modernity ◽  
Swing Era ◽  
Museum Exhibitions ◽  
Colour Blindness ◽  
Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt: Swing de Paris, an exhibition that took place at the Cité de la musique in Paris, depicted the life and environment of famed Manouche (French Romani/”Gypsy”) guitarist Django Reinhardt. In this article, I explore how the exhibition performed a spatialized centre-periphery model of citizenship that both reflected and reinforced Manouche marginality in relation to broader French society. I argue that museum exhibitions generate and harness place-oriented narratives to reinforce hegemonic conceptions about ideal citizens. In marking out an ethnoracially segregated imaginary of swing-era Paris, the exhibition reproduced stereotyped ideas about Manouche exoticism and inadaptability to urban modernity. These narratives are not exceptional, but are part of a long-standing project to define national belonging in terms of a normative white identity. As such, they are symptomatic of a much broader problem of state-sanctioned racism in France that is denied through claims to colour-blindness.

Young Lions and Historical Fictions 1990–2000

2020 ◽  
pp. 257-284
Author(s):  
Kevin Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Kansas City ◽  
Tourette's Syndrome ◽  
Tourette’S Syndrome ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Cable Tv ◽  
Historical Fictions ◽  
Django Reinhardt

The young generation of musicians such as Wynton and Branford Marsalis who shook up jazz in the 1980s arrives on screen in the following decade. Spike Lee’s Mo’ Better Blues and the cable-TV movie Lush Life fictionalize successful musicians of the era. Underage players also show up, as in 1940s movies: a teenage Toronto trumpeter gets advice from good and bad mentors in one, and a young pianist grapples with Tourette’s syndrome in another. In the 1990s, we see an outbreak of historical tales with unreliable narrators: a sometimes fanciful biopic of early jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke and Woody Allen’s extended tall tale Sweet and Lowdown, one of two 1990s films with a guitarist beholden to Django Reinhardt. In several particulars, Robert Altman’s Kansas City parallels his earlier film named for a musicians’ hub, Nashville, but in Kansas City, jazz doesn’t invade the main story.

The music of Django Reinhardt

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (01) ◽  
pp. 48-0173-48-0173
Keyword(s):  
Django Reinhardt

La main gauche de Django Reinhardt

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 488
Author(s):  
C. Demortain
Keyword(s):  
Django Reinhardt

The Swing Era

2021 ◽  
pp. 161-236
Author(s):  
Ted Gioia
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
American Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Swing Era ◽  
Django Reinhardt

This chapter looks at the dramatic changes in American culture during the 1930s, when danceable swing jazz played by big bands became the most popular music in the United States. The emergence of a more propulsive dance beat in Kansas City jazz, led by the Count Basie band, set the stage for this shift in the public’s tastes. But the rise to fame of Benny Goodman in the mid-1930s was the transformative event that established jazz as the dominant sound of ballrooms and radio broadcasts throughout the country. This chapter looks at Goodman and his clarinet rival Artie Shaw, and the other leading big bands of the era, as well as the seminal work of Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Django Reinhardt, Coleman Hawkins, Mary Lou Williams, and others. The chapter concludes with an account of Duke Ellington’s mid- and late-career music.

scholarly journals Tiger Rag na interpretação do Le Quintette du Hot Club de France: história, análise e práticas de performance

Per Musi ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 82-88
Author(s):  
Adriana Costa
Keyword(s):  
Cultura Popular ◽  
Jazz Band ◽  
Django Reinhardt

Estudo sobre a assimilação do jazz na cultura popular francesa dos anos de 1930 e criação de uma sociedade de entusiastas desse estilo, especialmente em torno do Le Quintette du Hot Club de France. A transcrição e análise de Tiger Rag, música dos membros da Original Dixieland Jazz Band (Nick La Rocca, Eddie Edwards, Tony Sbarbaro, Larry Shields e Harry da Costa) na interpretação do Le Quintette (LE QUINTETTE DU HOT CLUB DE FRANCE, 1934, remasterizado em 1993) revela suas práticas de performance, especialmente de seus solistas: Django Reinhardt, no violão, e Stephane Grappelli, no violino.

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