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Harlem in Montmartre

a Paris jazz story between the great wars

by William A. Shack

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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.

History and criticismMusiciens noirs américainsJazzAfrican American musiciansHistoire et critiqueNegersHistoryJazz, history and criticismAmericans, france
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