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Making Jazz French
DIVA history of jazz in interwar France, concentrating on the ways this originally American music was integrated into French culture./div
Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915
Contains letters, journals, and reminiscences showing the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West.
Django Reinhardt and the Illustrated History of Gypsy Jazz
Django Reinhardt was perhaps the greatest guitarist to ever live. A Gypsy who made his jazz guitar speak with a human voice, he was dashing, charismatic, childish . . . and doomed to die young after creating a legacy of Gypsy Jazz that remains vibrant today. Gypsy Jazz is a music both joyous and sad, timeless and modern. It was born from a marriage of Louis Armstrong s trumpet with the anguished sound of Romany violin and the fire of flamenco guitar. Created amidst the glamour of Jazz Age Paris and reaching a peak during the horrors of World War II, Gypsy Jazz gave a voice to a dispossessed people. Today, Gypsy Jazz is more popular than ever. It has a legacy as strong as the Cuban sounds of ...
Register of Carolina Huguenots, Vol. 2, Dupre - Manigault
This is Volume 2 of 4 volumes. See Volume 1 for a complete book description.
The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775
Because the bakers and their bread were central to Parisian daily life, Kaplan's study is also a comprehensive meditation on an entire society, its government, and its capacity to endure.
Land and Wine
A tour of the French winemaking regions to illustrate how the soil, underlying bedrock, relief, and microclimate shape the personality of a wine. For centuries, France has long been the world’s greatest wine-producing country. Its wines are the global gold standard, prized by collectors, and its winemaking regions each offer unique tasting experiences, from the spice of Bordeaux to the berry notes of the Loire Valley. Although grape variety, climate, and the skill of the winemaker are essential in making good wine, the foundation of a wine’s character is the soil in which its grapes are grown. Who could better guide us through the relationship between the French land and the wine than a ...
