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Language: en
Pages: 214
Pages: 214
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-09-04 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 230
Pages: 230
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-09-04 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
In 'Harlem in Montmartre', William Shack takes a look at this extraordinary cultural moment, one in which African American musicians could flee the racism of th
Language: en
Pages: 388
Pages: 388
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press
This academic study uses accounts from more than 60 African American writers--Countee Cullen, James Baldwin, Chester Himes et al.--to explain why they were more
Language: en
Pages: 281
Pages: 281
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-08-05 - Publisher: Duke University Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 456
Pages: 456
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-09-15 - Publisher: Burns & Oates
"In Underneath a Harlem Moon, Iain Cameron Williams takes the reader on a fascinating rollercoaster ride from Adelaide's birth in Brooklyn through her humble ch
