Jazz Age in Paris: 1914-1940
Bibliography

Suggestions for Further Study

This guide is divided into two sections: The Jazz Age in Paris, 1914-1940, the Smithsonian traveling exhibit, and the UMKC Libraries' exhibit on Americans in Paris: Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein.

Materials for further reading and listening include books, sound recordings, and videos in the collections of the UMKC Libraries. We hope you will find these selections interesting. If you need assistance locating the materials, please ask for assistance at the Miller Nichols Library Reference Desk (816/235-1534). We can also help you start your own research on this fascinating period.

Books | Recordings | Videos

Books

Bald, Wambly, and Benjamin Franklin. On the Left Bank, 1929-1933. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1987.

UMK MNL DC715.B22 1987

Bechet, Sidney. Treat It Gentle. New York: Hill and Wang, 1960.

UMK MNL Music ML419.B23 A3

Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986.

UMK MNL PS151 .B46 1986

Bernier, Olivier. Fireworks at Dusk: Paris in the Thirties. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993.

UMK MNL DC715 .B328 1993

Bigard, Barney, and Barry Martyn. With Louis and the Duke: the Autobiography of a Jazz Clarinetist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

UMK MNL Music Ml419.B46 B5 1986

Blake, Jody. Le Tumulte Noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900-1930. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.

UMK MNL q NX549.P2 B57 1999

Branch, Edgar Marquess, Dorothy Farrell, and James T Farrell. A Paris Year: Dorothy and James T. Farrell, 1931-1932. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998.

UMK MNL PS3511.A738 Z635 1998

Brask, Ole, and Dan Morgenstern. Jazz People. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1976.

UMK MNL Music q ML87 .B65 1976

Brassaï. Henry Miller: the Paris Years. 1st English language ed. New York: Arcade Pub, 1995.

UMK MNL PS3525.I5454 Z65713 1995

Bricktop, and James Haskins. Bricktop. 1st ed. New York: Atheneum, 1983.

UMK MNL Music ML420.B777 A3 1983

Carpenter, Humphrey. Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s. 1st American edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1988.

UMK MNL PS129 .C27 1988

Cocteau, Jean. Souvenir Portraits: Paris in the Belle Epoque. London: Robson, 1991.

UMK MNL PQ2605.O15 Z475 1990

Coleman, Bill. Trumpet Story. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991.

UMK MNL Music ML419.C62 A33 1991

Copland, Aaron, and Vivian Perlis. Copland: 1900 Through 1942. 1st ed. New York: St. Martin's Press/Marek, 1984.

UMK MNL Music ML419.C62 A33 1991

Crowder, Henry, Hugo Speck, and Robert L Allen. As Wonderful As All That? Henry Crowder's Memoir of His Affair With Nancy Cunard, 1928-1935. Navarro, Calif: Wild Trees Press, 1987.

UMK MNL Music ML417.C76 A3 1987

Cunard, Nancy. Negro Anthology. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969.

UMK MNL Reference Ref HT1581 .C8

Curtis, Susan. Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: a Life of Scott Joplin. Missouri Biography Series: Missouri Biography Series. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994.

UMK MNL Reference Ref HT1581 .C8

Davis, Thadious M. Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: a Woman's Life Unveiled. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994.

UMK MNL PS3523.A7225 Z63 1994

Debussy, Claude. Debussy on Music: the Critical Writings of the Great French Composer Claude Debussy. 1st American ed. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1977.

UMK MNL PS3523.A7225 Z63 1994

Deffaa, Chip. Voices of the Jazz Age: Profiles of Eight Vintage Jazzmen. Music in American Life: Music in American Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

UMK MNL Music ML395 .D44 1990

Delaunay, Charles. Hot Discography. New York: Commodore Music Shop, 1940.

UMK MNL Music Ref ML156.4.J3 D4

---. Hot Discography. 1940 ed. corr. and reprinted in the United States of America. New York, N.Y: Commodore record co., inc, 1943.

UMK MNL SpecColl Mus Z ML156.4.J3 D42 1943

---. Django Reinhardt. London: Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Cassell, 1963.

UMK MNL Music ML419.R44 D4 1982

Driggs, Frank, and Harris Lewine. Black Beauty, White Heat: a Pictorial History of Classic Jazz, 1920-1950 . 1st ed. New York: W. Morrow, 1982.

UMK MNL Music q ML3506 .D74 1982

Du Bois, W. E. B. The Autobiography of W.E.B. DuBois: a Soliloquy on Viewing My Life From the Last Decade of Its Final Century. 1st ed. New York: International Publishers, 1968.

UMK MNL SpecColl Snyder E185.97.D73 A3 1968

Eksteins, Modris. Rites of Spring: the Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.

UMK MNL D523 .E37 1989

Fabre, Michel. From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991.

UMK MNL PS153.N5 F34 1991

Feather, Leonard G. The Jazz Years: Ear Witness to an Era. New York: Da Capo Press, 1987.

UMK MNL Music ML423.F26 A3 1987

---. From Satchmo to Miles. New York: Stein and Day, 1972.

UMK MNL Music ML385 .F32

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, and Judith Baughman. A Life in Letters. New York, Toronto, New York: C. Scribner's. Maxwell Macmillan Canada. Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994.

UMK MNL PS3511.I9 Z48 1994

Ford, Hugh D. Nancy Cunard: Brave Poet, Indomitable Rebel, 1896-1965. 1st ed. Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co, 1968.

UMK MNL PR6005.U6 Z6

---. Four Lives in Paris. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987.

UMK MNL DC705.A1 F67 1987

Gabbard, Krin. Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

UMK MNL Music ML2075 .G33 1996

Gilbert, Stuart, James Joyce, Thomas F Staley, and Randolph Lewis. Reflections on James Joyce: Stuart Gilbert's Paris Journal. Austin: University of Texas Press, Austin, 1993.

UMK MNL PR6019.O9 Z53354 1993

Gleason, Ralph J, and Studs Terkel. Celebrating the Duke, and Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy, and Other Heroes. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975.

UMK MNL Music ML3561.J3 G5595

Goddard, Chris. Jazz Away From Home. New York: Paddington Press, 1979.

UMK MNL Music ML3580 .G6

Griffin, Peter. Less Than a Treason: Hemingway in Paris. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

UMK MNL PS3515.E37 Z6115.1990

Hasse, John Edward. Ragtime: Its History, Composers, and Music. New York: Schirmer Books, 1985.

UMK MNL Music ML3530 .R33 1985

Hentoff, Nat. Jazz Is. 1st ed. New York: Random House, 1976.

UMK MNL Music ML3561.J3 H447 1976

Hughes, Langston. The Big Sea, an Autobiography. American Century Series. New York: Hill and Wang, 1963.

UMK MNL PS3515.U274 Z5 1963

---. The First Book of Jazz. Updated ed. First Books. New York: F. Watts, 1976.

UMK MNL Music ML3561.J3 H84 1976

Hunton, Addie W, Kathryn M Johnson, and Addie W Hunton. Two Colored Women With the American Expeditionary Forces. African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940: African American Women Writers, 1910-1940. New York: G.K. Hall, 1997.

UMK MNL D639.N4 H8 1997

Kennedy, J. Gerald. Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

UMK MNL PS144.P37 K46 1993

Kimball, Robert, and William Bolcom. Reminiscing With Sissle and Blake. New York: Viking Press, 1973.

UMK MNL Music q ML3556 .K55

Kimball, Robert, Cole Porter, and Brendan Gill. Cole. 1st ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971.

UMK MNL Music q ML410.P7844 K55

Little, Arthur West. From Harlem to the Rhine; the Story of New York's Colored Volunteers. New York: Covici, Friede, 1936.

UMK MNL D570.33 369th .L5

Locke, Alain LeRoy. The Negro and His Music. Kennikat Press Series in Negro Culture and History: Kennikat Press Series in Negro Culture and History. Port Washington, N.Y: Kennikat Press, 1968.

UMK MNL Music ML3556 .L6 N6

---. The Negro and His Music. Negro Art: Past and Present. American Negro, His History and Literature: Afro-American Culture Series: American Negro, His History and Literature: Afro-American Culture Series. New York: Arno Press, 1969.

UMK MNL Music ML3556.L6 N4

McKay, Claude. A Long Way From Home. American Negro, His History and Literature: American Negro, His History and Literature. New York: Arno Press, 1969.

UMK MNL PS3525.A24785 Z5

Moody, Bill. The Jazz Exiles: American Musicians Abroad. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1993.

UMK MNL Music ML3506 .M66 1993

Morand, Paul, Hamish Miles, and Aaron Douglas. Black Magic. New York: Viking Press, 1929.

UMK MNL GN645 .M63

Morgan, Thomas L, and William Barlow. From Cakewalks to Concert Halls: an Illustrated History of African American Popular Music From 1895 to 1930. Washington, D.C: Elliott & Clark Pub, 1992.

UMK MNL Music q ML3479 .M67 1992

O'Meally, Robert G. Lady Day: the Many Faces of Billie Holiday. 1st ed. New York: Arcade Pub, 1991.

UMK MNL Music ML420.H58 O4 1991

Panassié, Hugues. The Real Jazz. Rev. and enl. ed. New York: Barnes, 1960.

UMK MNL Music ML3561.J3 P354 1960

Perloff, Nancy Lynn. Art and the Everyday: Popular Entertainment and the Circle of Erik Satie. Oxford, New York: Clarendon Press. Oxford University Press, 1991.

UMK MNL Music ML410.S196 P47 1991

Reynolds, Michael S. Hemingway, the Paris Years. Oxford, UK, New York, NY, USA: Blackwell, 1989.

UMK MNL PS3515.E37 Z7547 1989

Rose, Phyllis. Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time. 1st ed. New York: Doubleday, 1989.

UMK MNL GV1785.B3 R66 1989

Schuller, Gunther. Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development. History of Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

UMK MNL Music ML3561.J3 S3295

Shattuck, Roger. The Banquet Years: the Arts in France, 1885-1918: Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, Guillaume Apollinaire. 1st ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1958.

UMK MNL DC338 .S48

Smith, Willie, and George Hoefer. Music on My Mind; the Memoirs of an American Pianist. 1st ed. Garden City, N. Y: Doubleday, 1964.

UMK MNL Music ML417.S675 A3

Southern, Eileen. Readings in Black American Music. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1983.

UMK MNL Music ML3556 .R34 1983

---. The Music of Black Americans: a History. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.

UMK MNL Music ML3556 .S74 1997

Stewart, Rex William. Jazz Masters of the Thirties. The Macmillan Jazz Masters Series. New York: Macmillan Co, 1972.

UMK MNL Music ML3561.J3 S82

Stovall, Tyler Edward. Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

UMK MNL DC718.A36 S76 1996

Taylor, Frank C, and Gerald Cook. Alberta Hunter: a Celebration in Blues. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987.

UMK MNL Music ML420.H948 T4 1987

Torgovnick, Marianna. Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

UMK MNL NX456.5.P7 T67 1990

Van der Merwe, Peter. Origins of the Popular Style: the Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Oxford England, New York: Clarendon Press. Oxford University Press, 1989.

UMK MNL Music ML3470 .V36 1989

Walz, Robin. Pulp Surrealism: Insolent Popular Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Paris. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

UMK MNL DC715 .W26 2000

Watkins, Glenn. Pyramids at the Louvre: Music, Culture, and Collage From Stravinsky to the Postmodernists. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994.

UMK MNL Music ML197 .W437 1994

Zwerin, Michael. La Tristesse De Saint Louis: Swing Under the Nazis. London: Quartet, 1985.

UMK MNL Music ML3509.E9 Z9 1985

Recordings

Armenian, Raffi. "Ragtime: the Music of Stravinsky, McCauley & Milhaud." Igor Stravinsky, Igor Stravinsky, Igor Stravinsky, Igor Stravinsky, William McCauley, Darius Milhaud, and Canadian Chamber Ensemble. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1996.

UMK MNL Music A/V CD 2000:95

Armstrong, Louis. "Early Armstrong: Louis Armstrong Collectors Items." Ma Rainey, Trixie Smith, Red Onion Jazz Babies, and Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra. S.l.: Jemi Records, 1971.

UMK MNL Marr Jemi Records: JLP 103

Bechet, Sidney. "Blackstick (1931-1938)." Noble Sissle, Spencer O'Neil, Trixie Smith, Noble Sissle Orchestra, and Noble Sissle's Swingters. Universal City, Calif: MCA Records, 1980.

UMK MNL Marr MCA Records: MCA-1330

Blake, Eubie. "The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake." Noble Sissle. New York: Columbia, 1969.

UMK MNL Marr Columbia: C2S 847

---. "Sissle & Blake's Shuffle Along: an Archival Re-Creation of the 1921 Production, Featuring Members of the Original Cast." Noble Sissle, James Reese Europe, Noble Sissle, Gertrude Saunders, Eubie Blake and his Shuffle Along Orchestra, Noble Sissle and his Sizzling Syncopators, Sissle and Blake, Tim Brymn and his Black Devil Orchestra, Paul Whiteman Orchestra, Miller & Lyles, Noble Sissle and his Orchestra, and Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Band. Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc. New York, N.Y: New World Records, 1976.

UMK MNL Music A/V RD 79:60

Copland, Aaron. "The Complete Music for Solo Piano." Leo Smit. New York, NY: Sony Classical, 1994.

UMK MNL Music A/V CD 98:92

"Django "1934" First Recordings of The Quintette of The Hot Club of France." Dave Dexter, Django Reinhardt, Hot Club de France, and Quintette. Los Angeles: GNP Crescendo Records, 1974.

UMK MNL Marr GNP Crescendo Records: GNP 903

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Grappelli, Stéphane. "Stephane Grapelli With Bill Coleman." Bill Coleman. New York, N.Y: Classic Jazz, 1976.

UMK MNL Marr Classical Jazz: CJ24

Hot Club de France, and Quintette. "Quintet of the Hot Club of France." Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli, and Franz Liszt. Hollywood, CA: Angel Records, 1974.

UMK MNL Marr Angel Records: S 36985

Hunter, Alberta. "Classic Alberta Hunter." Brooklyn, N.Y: Stash Records, 1978.

UMK MNL Marr Stash Records: ST 115

"Josephine Baker." New York City: Columbia, 1951.

UMK MNL Marr Columbia: FL 9532

Mercer, Mabel. "The Art of Mabel Mercer." Sam Hamilton, Stan Freeman, and Cy Coleman. New York: Atlantic, 1957.

UMK MNL Marr Atlantic: 2-602

"Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz." Martin T Williams. Washington, D.C, New York: Smithsonian Collection of Recordings. Manufactured by CBS Records, 1987.

UMK MNL Music A/V CD 99:470 v.1-v.5

"Stéphane Grappelli : Homage to Django." Stéphane Grappelli, and Django Reinhardt. Classic Jazz, 1976.

UMK MNL Marr Classic Jazz: CJ 23

"Steppin' on the Gas: Rags to Jazz, 1913 'n [i.e. to] 1927." James Reese Europe, Freddie Keppard, Kid Ory, Sam Morgan, A. J Piron, Johnny Dunn, Clarence Williams, Perry Bradford, Europe's Society Orchestra, Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Band, Six Brown Brothers, Keppard's Jazz Cardinals, Ory's Sunshine Orchestra, Sam Morgan's Jazz Band, Piron's New Orleans Orchestra, New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Johnny Dunn's Original Jazz Hounds, Johnny Dunn and his Jazz Band, Clarence Williams' Blue Five, and Perry Bradford's Jazz Phools. New York City: New World Records, 1977.

UMK MNL Music A/V RD 79:68

Videos

Dee, Ruby, Robert G O'Meally, Kultur International Films, Taurus Film GmbH, Toby Byron/Multiprises, and Video Arts Japan, Inc. Lady Day: the Many Faces of Billie Holiday. 1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) videorecording. Masters of American Music Series: Masters of American Music Series. Long Beach, N.J: Kultur, 1991.

UMK MNL Music A/V MV 93:5

France, Chuck, and Francerelli Films. Jazz in Exile. 1 videocassette (VHS) (58 min.) videorecording. New York: Rhapsody Films, 1986.

UMK MNL Music A/V MV 92:6

Smith, Bessie, Ethel Waters, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge, Gerry Mulligan, Ida Cox, Jesse Crump, Rosetta Tharpe, Connie Boswell, Dinah Washington, Ruth Brown, Lena Horne, Teddy Wilson, Sarah Vaughan, Helen Humes, Peggy Lee, Benny Goodman, Dave Barbour, Leigh Kamman, Count Basie Orchestra, Minnesota Studio, Inc, and View Video. The Ladies Sing the Blues. 1 videocassette (60 min.) videorecording. Jazz Series: Jazz Series (View Video). New York, N.Y: V.I.E.W. Video, 1988.

UMK MNL Music A/V MV 97:21

Tavernier, Bertrand, David Rayfiel, Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, and Gabrielle Haker. 'Round Midnight. 1 videocassette (VHS) (132 min.) videorecording. Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video, 1987.

UMK MNL Music A/V MV 93:12

The Jazz Age in Paris, 1914-1940 was organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the American Library Association. It was made possible through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. This exhibition is part of America's Jazz Heritage, a Partnership of the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the Smithsonian Institution.

For a related exhibit and program, see http://library.umkc.edu/spec-col/ParisofthePlains/announce.htm for information on the UMKC Libraries Fall 2000 exhibit:Kansas City: The Paris of the Plains, 1910-1940, October 26, 2000 - May 30, 2001.

Members of the UMKC Libraries Planning Committee are: Elizabeth Ader Henry, Sandy Beaty, Marilyn Carbonell, Laura Gayle Green, Chuck Haddix, Virginia Long, Robert Ray, and Helen Spalding. Ted P. Sheldon is the Director of the UMKC Libraries (1985-2004).