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Le jazz hot.(Book Review)

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Dancing with de Beauvoir." Jazz and the French, by Colin Nettelbeck; Melbourne University Press, 2004, $45.

AS A PROFESSOR of French at the University of Melbourne and as a longtime jazz fan, Colin Nettelbeck in Dancing with de Beauvoir has very productively combined his two main enthusiasms. What is it with jazz and the French? Why were they the first people outside America to take it seriously (more seriously than the Americans themselves)? Why did so many black American musicians visit France or live there between 1920 and 1960? How did all this affect French culture generally?

It would be pleasant for jazz fans such as myself to imagine that this is ...

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