Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story Between the Great Wars Volume 4

by William A. Shack

During the years between the world wars, a small but dynamic community of African American jazz musicians left the United States and settled in Paris, creating a vibrant expatriate musical scene and introducing jazz to the French. While the Harlem Renaissance was taking off across the Atlantic, entertainers in Montmartre, the epicenter of the Parisian scene, contributed enthusiastically to a culture that thrived for two decades, until the occupation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520225376
• ISBN13: 9780520225374
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"