{"title":"Robert Englebert and Andrew N. Wegmann, editors, French Connections: Cultural Mobility in North America and the Atlantic World, 1600–1875","authors":"Alanna Loucks","doi":"10.3138/cjh.56-3-br20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.56-3-br20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49171775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robert Coutts, Authorized Heritage: Place, Memory, and Historic Sites in Prairie Canada","authors":"Jessica M DeWitt","doi":"10.3138/cjh.56-3-br13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.56-3-br13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45338717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black Women Dancers, Jazz Culture, and “Show Biz”: Recentering Afro-Culture and Reclaiming Dancing Black Bodies in Montréal, 1920s–1950s","authors":"Emilie Jabouin","doi":"10.3138/cjh.56-3-2021-0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.56-3-2021-0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The documentary Show Girls, directed by Meilan Lam, makes an unprecedented contribution to the history of jazz and Black women jazz dancers in Montréal, Quebec, and to the conversation of jazz in Canada. Show Girls offers a glimpse into the lives of three Black women dancers of the 1920s–1950s. This essay asks what the lives of Black women dancers were like and how they navigated their career paths in terms of social and economic opportunities and barriers. I seek to better understand three points: (1) the gap in the study of jazz that generally excludes and/or separates dance and singing from the music; (2) the use of dance as a way to commercialize, sell, and give visual and conceptual meaning to jazz; (3) the importance of the Black body and the role of what I would define as “Afro-culture” in producing the ingenious and creative genre of jazz. My study suggests there is a dominant narrative of jazz, at least in academic literature, that celebrates one dimension of jazz as it was advertised in show business, and that bringing in additional components of jazz provides a counternarrative, but also a restorative, whole and more authentic story of jazz and its origins. More specifically, by re-exploring jazz as a whole culture that relies on music, song, and dance, this essay explores three major ideas. First, Black women dancers played a significant role in the success of jazz shows. Second, they articulated stories of self, freedom, and the identity of the New Negro through jazz culture and dance. Third, Black women’s bodies and art were later crystallized into images that further served to sell jazz as a product of show business.Résumé:Le documentaire Les Girls produit par Meilan Lam apporte une contribution sans précédent à l’histoire du jazz et des danseuses de jazz noires à Montréal, au Québec, ainsi qu’à la discussion sur le jazz au Canada. Les Girls offre un aperçu de la vie de trois danseuses noires des années 1920 à 1950. Le présent article intitulé « Danseuses noires, culture du jazz et “industrie du spectacle” : recentrage et réappropriation des corps des danseuses noires dans le Montréal des années 1920 à 1950 » cherche à répondre aux interrogations suivantes : à quoi ressemblait la vie des danseuses noires ? Comment elles se frayèrent un cheminement de carrière en termes de possibilités et d’obstacles sur le plan socio-économique ? Ce travail s’efforce de mieux cerner les trois points suivants : (1) les lacunes dans les recherches sur le jazz qui, en général, excluent et/ou séparent la danse et le chant de la musique ; (2) l’utilisation de la danse comme moyen de commercialiser, de vendre, et de donner un sens visuel et conceptuel au jazz; (3) la dépendance du jazz vis-à-vis du corps de la femme noire et de ce qu’on pourrait nommer « Afro-culture » pour produire un style de jazz ingénieux et créatif. Cette étude suggère qu’il existe un discours dominant du jazz, à tout le moins, chez les universitaires, qui célèbre une dimen","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":"56 1","pages":"229 - 265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41384119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sarah Nickel and Amanda Fehr, editors, In Good Relation: History, Gender, and Kinship in Indigenous Feminisms","authors":"Karla J. Strand","doi":"10.3138/cjh.56-3-br21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.56-3-br21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69879785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simon Jarrett, Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day","authors":"Elizabeth A. Nelson","doi":"10.3138/cjh.56-3-br07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.56-3-br07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45704960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Daniel I. Wasserman-Soler, Truth in Many Tongues: Religious Conversion and the Language of the Early Spanish Empire","authors":"J. Dyck","doi":"10.3138/cjh.56-3-br18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.56-3-br18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45933194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black Gold: A Black Feminist Art History of 1920s Montréal","authors":"J. Joachim","doi":"10.3138/cjh.56-3-2021-0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.56-3-2021-0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The 1920s have been touted as the golden era of jazz and Black history in Montréal. Similarly, the decade is well known for the Harlem Renaissance, a key moment in African American art history. Yet this period in Black Canadian art histories remains largely unknown. As a first step toward shedding some light on this period in Black Canadian art history, I propose to use what I term a Black feminist art-historical (bfah) praxis to discuss some visual art practices undoubtedly active alongside well-known jazz musicians and cultural producers in 1920s Montréal. This paper presents an overview of critical race art history and feminist art history, as well as Black feminist approaches to visual representation, to outline what might be considered four tenets of bfah praxis. Applying these tenets, I propose that a new art history may emerge from well-known art objects and practices as well as lesser-known ones. I posit that through a deliberately bfah approach, new meanings emerge and the voices of Black women, even when obstructed by mainstream white narratives, may begin to stand out and shed light upon a variety of histories. This praxis aims to underline the subtext lurking at the edges of these images and to make intangible presences visible in the archive and in art history. I propose bfah as a strategy for more nuanced discussion of the work of Black Canadian artists and histories that have by and large been left out of official records.Résumé:Les années 1920 sont généralement présentées comme étant l’âge d’or du jazz et de l’histoire des Noirs à Montréal. De même, cette décennie est reconnue pour être la Renaissance de Harlem, un moment clé de l’histoire de l’art afro-américain. Pourtant, cette période de l’histoire de l’art afro-canadien demeure largement méconnue. Comme première étape visant à jeter un peu de lumière sur ce pan de l’histoire de l’art afro-canadien, je propose de recourir à ce que j’appelle une praxis de l’histoire de l’art féministe noir (bfah) pour examiner quelques pratiques d’arts visuels qui furent inconstablement actives aux côtés de musiciens de jazz et de producteurs culturels reconnus dans le Montréal des années 1920. Le présent article offre un aperçu de l’histoire de l’art dans une perspective critique de la race (critical race art history), de l’histoire de l’art féministe noir, ainsi que des approches de féministes noires en matière de représentation visuelle, dans le but d’esquisser ce qui pourrait être considéré comme les quatre principes de la praxis bfah. En appliquant ces principes, je propose l’émergence d’une nouvelle histoire de l’art à partir des pratiques et des œuvres d’art reconnues ainsi que celles qui le sont moins. Je postule qu’à travers une approche bfah délibérée, de nouveaux sens émergent, de même que les voix des femmes noires, même lorsqu’elles sont entravées par les récits dominants blancs, puissent commencer à se démarquer et à jeter de la lumière sur des histoires diverses. Cette pr","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":"56 1","pages":"266 - 291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46550730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson, and Syrus Marcus Ware, editors, Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matters in Canada","authors":"Alana Butler","doi":"10.3138/cjh.56-3-br03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.56-3-br03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48312808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kathryn Ciancia, On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World","authors":"P. Markiewicz","doi":"10.3138/cjh.56-3-br08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.56-3-br08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45475211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bucking Conservatism: Alternative Stories of Alberta from the 1960s and 1970s ed. by Leon Crane Bear, Larry Hannant, and Karissa Robyn Patton (review)","authors":"B. Crowson","doi":"10.15215/aupress/9781771992572.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15215/aupress/9781771992572.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":"57 1","pages":"315 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42052051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}