Jeremy F Lane: 3 books
Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism
Music, "Race," and Intellectuals in France, 1918-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Jeremy F. Lane’s Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism is a bold challenge to the existing homogenous picture of the reception of American jazz in world-war era France. Lane’s book closely examines the reception of jazz among French-speaking intellectuals between 1918 and 1945 and is the first study...
Pierre Bourdieu
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2000
'This beautifully written and lucidly argued study is the most persuasive account of Bourdieu's work yet to be published. Lane illuminates much that can puzzle a foreign readership by expertly situating Bourdieu within a French context. At the same time he points to those aspects of Bourdieu's writing...
Bourdieu's Politics
Problems and Possiblities
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
In the last decade of his career, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu became involved in a series of high-profile political interventions, defending the cause of striking students and workers, speaking out in the name of illegal immigrants, the homeless and the unemployed, challenging the incursion...