At Home in Our Sounds

This month, Oxford University Press published At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris by Dr Rachel Gillett (History and Art History).

At Home in Our Sounds

At Home in Our Sounds links the advent of jazz music with concurrent social and political developments in Interwar Paris. Other studies of this period often focus on jazz icons, but this book instead focuses on the experiences of women and working-class musicians and performers. Drawing on police records, musical recordings, personal stories, and visual culture, this is an interdisciplinary work on jazz music in Paris.

• Title: At Home in Our Sounds. Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris
• Author: Rachel Gillett
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• ISBN: 9780190842703