Royal Hipsters of Jazz: Romania's Surprising Jazz Origins, its Cultural Influences and Analysis of its Written Histories

by Tom Smith and Tom Smith

THIRD EDITION: Forward by Sarah A. Smith, Jazz was burned into Romania's psyche around 1918, after a great war unified its kingdoms amid totemic change. But through negotiation of multi-veiled alliances, a nation of Romantics gave birth to a jazz subclass directly linked with its classical music. From its juxtaposition with an American hybrid, Romanian jazz revealed a cosmopolitanism different, but equal to what had been found in its literature, architecture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1730764541
• ISBN13: 9781730764547
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"