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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Jeffrey H. Jackson. Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris. (American Encounters/Global Interactions.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 266. $21.95.
Jeffrey H. Jackson states in his acknowledgments that he was motivated to undertake the research and writing of this book because, at least at the time, so little had been written about jazz in France. This historical neglect is especially ironic in light of Jackson's central argument: that France more than England or Germany or Russia claimed jazz as its own between World Wars I and II. Pioneering accounts by Francophone jazz enthusiasts in the 1920s through 1940s, such as Robert Goffin, Hugues Panassié, Charles Delaunay, and André Hodeir, are central to Jackson's historiography. These books make up for their lack of historical perspective with their wealth of first-hand experience and vehemence of partisan enthusiasm.	1
The situation has changed with the publication of major scholarly studies devoted entirely or in large part to jazz in France, notably Ludovic Tournès, New Orleans sur Seine: Histoire du jazz en France (1999). Tournès's book has not yet been translated, and Jackson provides Anglophones with a well-researched account of musicians associated with the Paris jazz scene such as Americans Sidney Bechet and Milton Mezzerow, and Frenchmen Stéphane Grapelli and Django Reinhart. Even more important, he presents a highly readable analysis of responses to jazz in France, including debates about symphonic and hot jazz, and swing and bebop, familiar in the United States as well.	. . .

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