Harlem in Montmartre
Subtitle: a Paris jazz story between the great wars
By: William A. Shack.
Series: Music of the African diaspora ;; 4
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Jazz -- France -- Paris -- History and criticism; African American musicians -- France -- Paris; Montmartre (Paris, France) -- History
Description: 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 the "city of lights" into the major jazz capital it remains today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-172) and index.
"George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."