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Music and Bad Manners (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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By Carl Van Vechten

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On Sale
May 3, 2011
Page Count
250 pages
Publisher
BookAnnex
ISBN-13
9781411452015

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$1.99

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$2.99 CAD

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ebook (Digital original)

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Carl Van Vechten was not only America’s first dance critic, but the first to champion American music and consider ragtime and jazz serious genres. This 1916 collection of writings heralded the Jazz Age with such irreverent but informed assessments as “Music for the Movies,” “Spain and Music,” “Shall We Realize Wagner’s Ideals?” and “The Bridge Burners.”


Carl Van Vechten

About the Author

Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) was an American critic, author, and photographer known for his involvement with the Harlem Renaissance.  He served as the literary executor for Gertrude Stein.  Aside from his patronage of African-American writers and artists, his sensitive portraits of such figures as James Baldwin, Billie Holiday, and F. Scott Fitzgerald are his most enduring legacy.   

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