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- catalog abstract "Paris Noir fills a grievous gap in the absorbing chronicle of American expatriates who chose to live in Paris in the twentieth century. For alongside Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein and Henry Miller was an avant-garde and tightly knit community of black American writers, artists, musicians, and political exiles who found in Paris the creative and personal freedom denied them back home. A welcoming refuge for writers, Paris embraced Richard Wright, Chester Himes, James Baldwin, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay. A score of all-important jazz musicians lit up the city at night, from Miles Davis to Charlie Parker to Sidney Bechet, while Josephine Baker dazzled audiences with the Danse Sauvage in the Revue Negre. Leaving an equally important mark were the painters and artists who found inspiration in the Paris scene: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Lois Mailou Jones, Ed Clark, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Barbara Chase-Riboud. Paris Noir brings. This vibrant world to life, beginning with the doughboys who returned to Paris after World War I and moving on through the Jazz Age, the Depression, the years of the Harlem Renaissance, World War II, and the postwar boom.".
- catalog contributor b9817505.
- catalog coverage "Paris (France) Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "Paris (France) Race relations History 20th century.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Freedom overseas: African American soldiers fight the great war -- Bringing the jazz age to Paris -- Depression and war: Paris in the 1930s -- Life on the left bank -- The golden age of African American literature in Paris -- New perspectives on race -- African Americans in Paris today.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 342-347) and index.".
- catalog description "James Baldwin, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay. A score of all-important jazz musicians lit up the city at night, from Miles Davis to Charlie Parker to Sidney Bechet, while Josephine Baker dazzled audiences with the Danse Sauvage in the Revue Negre. Leaving an equally important mark were the painters and artists who found inspiration in the Paris scene: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Lois Mailou Jones, Ed Clark, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Barbara Chase-Riboud. Paris Noir brings.".
- catalog description "Paris Noir fills a grievous gap in the absorbing chronicle of American expatriates who chose to live in Paris in the twentieth century. For alongside Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein and Henry Miller was an avant-garde and tightly knit community of black American writers, artists, musicians, and political exiles who found in Paris the creative and personal freedom denied them back home. A welcoming refuge for writers, Paris embraced Richard Wright, Chester Himes,".
- catalog description "This vibrant world to life, beginning with the doughboys who returned to Paris after World War I and moving on through the Jazz Age, the Depression, the years of the Harlem Renaissance, World War II, and the postwar boom.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 366 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0395683998 (cloth)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Houghton Mifflin,".
- catalog spatial "France Paris".
- catalog spatial "Paris (France) Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Paris (France) Race relations History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "944/.3600496073 20".
- catalog subject "African Americans France Paris History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "DC718.A36 S76 1996".
- catalog subject "Liberty.".
- catalog subject "Toleration France Paris History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Freedom overseas: African American soldiers fight the great war -- Bringing the jazz age to Paris -- Depression and war: Paris in the 1930s -- Life on the left bank -- The golden age of African American literature in Paris -- New perspectives on race -- African Americans in Paris today.".
- catalog title "Paris noir : African Americans in the City of Light / Tyler Stovall.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".