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Paris Washboard: Superswing
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Parisians are crazy about three things: Food, love and syncopation. I've always felt that the city's fascination with the latter has much to do with its romanticized impression of the years before World War II. But Paris's history with syncopation goes back even further. European classical modernists came under its influence at the start of the 20th century. Ragtime was likely at the Paris Exposition of 1900, where march king John Philip Sousa made a tour stop. Antonín Dvořák was ...
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