Django Generations
Django Generations shows how relationships between racial identities, jazz, and national belonging become entangled in France.Jazz manouche--a genre known best for its energetic, guitar-centric swing…
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Django Generations shows how relationships between racial identities, jazz, and national belonging become entangled in France.Jazz manouche--a genre known best for its energetic, guitar-centric swing tunes--is among France's most celebrated musical practices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It centers on the recorded work of famed guitarist Django Reinhardt and is named for the Manouche subgroup of Romanies, also known somewhat pejoratively as "Gypsies," to which Reinhardt belonged. French Manouches are publicly lauded as bearers of this jazz tradition, a practice in which many take pleasure and pride, while facing pervasive discrimination at the same time. Jazz manouche uncovers a contradiction at the heart of France's assimilationist republican ideals: the music is portrayed as quintessentially French even as Manouches themselves endure treatment as