<i>Métis</i> In the Mainstream: The Ambivalent Blackness and Legacy of Henri Salvador
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Abstract
Existing studies of musical blackness in France either focus on inter-war jazz or on post-1990 rap and “urban pop.” This article bridges the gap by studying the songs and career of Henri Salvador (1917-2008), a singer and guitarist of Guadeloupean origin who successfully transitioned, in metropolitan France, from the 1930s fashion for Creole music to mainstream pop in the 1950s and beyond. His success as a métis or mixed-race artist straddled racial stereotyping and abstract Frenchness, revealing complexities around race that problematize the relevance of blackness and métissage (French-style multiculturalism) for framing the work of Black pop musicians in France.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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