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Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism.(Book review)

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Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism. By Mary E. Davis. (California Studies in 20th-Century Music, 6.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. [xix, 336 p.ISBN-10: 0-5202-4542-3; ISBN 13: 978-0-520-24542-6. $39.95.] Illustrations, bibliographic references, index.

Mary E. Davis's dissertation examined Erik Satie's esprit gaulois, and her first book required a decade of perusing lavishly illustrated fashion magazines at the height of their haute couture alliance with music. Her suggestion in this journal last year to consider that "something fun may have been going on here" (review of The Composer as Intellectual: Music and Ideology in France ...

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