French Stewardship of Jazz: The Case of France Musique and France Culture

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dc.contributor.advisorKing, Richard G.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSuddarth, Roscoe Seldonen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMusicen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-06-20T05:31:53Z
dc.date.available2008-06-20T05:31:53Z
dc.date.issued2008-03-24en_US
dc.description.abstractThe French treat jazz as "high art," as their state radio stations France Musique and France Culture demonstrate. Jazz came to France in World War I with the US army, and became fashionable in the 1920s--treated as exotic African-American folklore. However, when France developed its own jazz players, notably Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, jazz became accepted as a universal art. Two well-born Frenchmen, Hugues Panassié and Charles Delaunay, embraced jazz and propagated it through the Hot Club de France. After World War II, several highly educated commentators insured that jazz was taken seriously. French radio jazz gradually acquired the support of the French government. This thesis describes the major jazz programs of France Musique and France Culture, particularly the daily programs of Alain Gerber and Arnaud Merlin, and demonstrates how these programs display connoisseurship, erudition, thoroughness, critical insight, and dedication. France takes its "stewardship" of jazz seriously.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/8049
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMusicen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledjazzen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFranceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFrench radioen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFrance Musiqueen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFrance Cultureen_US
dc.titleFrench Stewardship of Jazz: The Case of France Musique and France Cultureen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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