In the winter of 1910 the river that brought life to Paris became a force of destruction drowning Parisian streets, forcing its inhabitants to overcome a history of strife and work together. On the hundredth anniversary of the flood, Jeffrey H. Jackson captures here for the first time the drama and [...]
In "Making Jazz French", Jeffrey H. Jackson examines not only how and why jazz became so widely performed in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s but also why it was so controversial.[...]