Colin Nettelbeck

About The Author

Colin Nettelbeck is AR Chisholm Professor of French and Head of the School of Languages at the University of Melbourne. He has written many books and articles about twentieth century French literature, cinema and cultural history, including Forever French: Exile in the United States 1939-1945 (1993) and A Century of Cinema: Australian and French Connections (with Jane Warren and Wallace Kirsop, 1996).
He is a jazz fan and sometime practitioner and, like Cole Porter, loves Paris in any season.

Books by Colin Nettelbeck

Dancing With De Beauvoir

Jazz and the French

By Colin Nettelbeck
When live jazz arrived in France towards the end of World War I, it was seen from the start as a fertile symbol of other things. It was an embodiment of artistic freedom, it was modernism, it was America, it was African primitivism, sexual liberation, social decadence and moral decay. Its energy ...
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