Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde

by Bernard Gordron and Bernard Gendron

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, popular music was considered nothing but vulgar entertainment. Today, jazz and rock music are seen as forms of art, and their practitioners are regularly accorded a status on par with the cultural and political elite. To take just one recent example, Bono, lead singer and lyricist of the rock band U2, got equal and sometimes higher billing than Pope John Paul II on their shared efforts in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226287378
• ISBN13: 9780226287379
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.4"