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What "The Great Gatsby" Tells Us About Jazz In The 1920s by Artsjournal

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 […]

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM on May 9, 2019

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