Jazz Age Barcelona / / Robert A. Davidson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818472003321
• Autore: Davidson Robert A. <1970->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009; ©2009
• ISBN: 1-4426-9705-9; 1-4426-9013-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic text (viii, 248 p. : ill., maps, ports.) : digital file
• Collana: Studies in Book and Print Culture
• Disciplina: 946/.72074
• Soggetti: Jazz - Political aspects - Spain - Barcelona - History; Jazz - Spain - Barcelona - History and criticism - 20th century; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; History; Electronic books.; Barcelona (Spain) Civilization 20th century; Barcelona (Spain) Social life and customs 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Barcelona Boom Town -- 2. Where Others Fear to Tread: El Escándalo and Sangre en Atarazanas -- 3. The Spatial Aesthetics of Jazz Rhythm -- 4. Vantage Point: Barcelona's Mirador (1929-31) -- 5. An Age in Pictures: Imatges (1930) -- 6. The Colour of a Cocktail: J.M. de Sagarra's Aperitiu and Vida privada -- Conclusion: Picking Up the Tab -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: Following the Great War's devastation, innovative movements in France offered competing visions of a revitalized national body and a new world order. One of these was the postwar Catholic revival or renouveau catholique. Since the church had historically been the dominant religious force in France, its turn of the century separation from the state was especially bitter. For many Catholics, the 1914-18 sacrifices made on the Republic's behalf necessitated its postwar 're-; Christianization.' However, in their attempt to reconcile Catholicism with culture, revivalists needed to abandon old oppositions and adapt religion's rigging to the prevailing winds of modernity. Stephen Schloesser's Jazz Age Catholicism shows how a postwar generation of Catholics refashioned traditional notions of sacramentalism in modern language and imagery. Jacques Maritain's philosophy, Georges Rouault's visual art, Georges Bernanos's fiction, and Charles Tournemire's music all reclothed ancient tropes in new fashions. By the late 1920s, the renouveau catholique had successfully positioned Catholic intellectual and cultural discourse at the very centre of elite French life. Its synthesis of Catholicism and culture would define the religiosity of many throughout Western Europe and the Americas into the 1960s.