[Linganth] Siv Lie on her book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Siv Lie talks about her 2021 book, Django Generations, with Lynn Hook today
on the CaMP
anthropology blog.

https://campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: *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 ethnoracial subgroup of
Romanies (also known, often pejoratively, as “Gypsies”) to which Reinhardt
belonged. French Manouches are publicly lauded as bearers of this jazz
tradition, and many take pleasure and pride in the practice while at the
same time facing pervasive discrimination. 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 racial others.

In this book, Siv B. Lie explores how this music is used to construct
divergent ethnoracial and national identities in a context where
discussions of race are otherwise censured. Weaving together ethnographic
and historical analysis, Lie shows that jazz manouche becomes a source of
profound ambivalence as it generates ethnoracial difference and
socioeconomic exclusion. As the first full-length ethnographic study of
French jazz to be published in English, this book enriches anthropological,
ethnomusicological, and historical scholarship on global jazz, race and
ethnicity, and citizenship while showing how music can be an important but
insufficient tool in struggles for racial and economic justice.
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