To name but a few: William A Shack’s wonderful history Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story between the Great Wars (2001) Published by the University of California Press. The reasons for this and full exploration of how this cultural phenomenon came about has been recently documented in several books since 2000. Fitzgerald penned it, really had two major metropolitan locations – New York and Paris, or to be a bit more precise: Harlem and Montmartre. – Maurice Ravel (Letters, Interviews in Arbie Orenstein, A Ravel Reader (1990), p.390 and p.280) It is influencing our work…I like jazz much more than grand opera.” You seem to feel that it is cheap, vulgar, momentary…Abroad we take jazz seriously. Underneath A Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story between the Great Wars. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. Eugene Bullard: Black Expatriate in Jazz-Age Paris. Haskins, James, & Duconge, Ada Smith (1983). Le tumulte noir: modernist art and popular entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900-1930. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commonsīlake, Jody (1999). “Eugène Atget, Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève, 1924” by Eugène Atget – Metropolitan Museum of Art, online database: entry 190040304.
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