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Making jazz French
music and modern life in interwar Paris
By Jackson, Jeffrey H.
- ISBN
- 978-0-82233-124-7
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2003
This is an outstanding little book-a highly readable history of jazz in interwar Paris and a brilliant case study of French cosmopolitanism, examining the ways in which French musicians and audiences adopted a distinctly American style of music and, ultimately, made it their own. Jackson (history, Rhodes Coll.) appears to have read all of the performance reviews dating from the 1910s, as well as the pertinent commentaries by French intellectuals. From those, he has abstracted colorful comments and insightful observations touching on the music and its potential impact, for good or ill, o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
