DIVA history of jazz in interwar France, concentrating on the ways this originally American music was integrated into French culture./div

DIVA history of jazz in interwar France, concentrating on the ways this originally American music was integrated into French culture./div

Between the world wars, Paris welcomed not only a number of glamorous American expatriates, including Josephine Baker and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also a dynami

Illuminates the expatriate African American community of jazz musicians that thrived in the Montmartre district of Paris in the '20s and '30s and helped turn th

How did French musicians and critics interpret jazz--that quintessentially American music--in the mid-twentieth century? How far did players reshape what they l