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What “The Great Gatsby” Tells Us About Jazz In The 1920s

MUSIC Posted: May 9, 2019 8:30 am

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s deployment of jazz imagery was as cutting-edge as it was conservative. He embraced the new music; he struggled more to embrace its practitioners and progenitors. He was willing to learn. Yet in the age when jazz was at its arguable peak of public visibility, he was still not able to see black people in the same way he saw white Americans and Europeans. – JSTOR

MUSIC Published: 05.08.19

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