Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris

by Jeffrey H. Jackson

Book Overview

Between the world wars, Paris welcomed not only a number of glamorous American expatriates, including Josephine Baker and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also a dynamic musical style emerging in the United States: jazz. Roaring through cabarets, music halls, and dance clubs, the upbeat, syncopated rhythms of jazz soon added to the allure of Paris as a center of international nightlife and cutting-edge modern culture. In Making Jazz French, Jeffrey...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822331241
• ISBN13: 9780822331247
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"