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Robert A. Davidson - Jazz Age Barcelona - 9780802099372 - V9780802099372
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Jazz Age Barcelona

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Description for Jazz Age Barcelona hardcover. Jazz Age Barcelona focuses the lenses of cultural studies and urban studies on the avant-garde character of the city during the cosmopolitan Jazz Age, delving into the cultural forces that flourished in Europe between the late 1910s and early 1930s. Series: Studies in Book & Print Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 49. BIC Classification: 1DS; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.

One of the world's renowned centres of culture, Barcelona is also one of the capitals of modernist art given its associations with the talents of Dali, Picasso, and Gaudi. Jazz Age Barcelona focuses the lenses of cultural studies and urban studies on the avant-garde character of the city during the cosmopolitan Jazz Age, delving into the cultural forces that flourished in Europe between the late 1910s and early 1930s. Studying literary journalism, photography, and the city of Barcelona itself, Robert Davidson argues that the explosion of jazz culture and the avant-garde was predominantly fostered by journalists and their positive reception ... Read more

Using periodicals and recently rediscovered archival material, Davidson considers the relationship between the political pressures of a brutal class war, the grasp of a repressive dictatorship, and the engagement of the city's young intellectuals with Barcelona's culture and environment. Also analysing the 1929 International Exhibition and the down-and-out Raval District - which housed many of the Age's clubs and bars - Jazz Age Barcelona is an insightful portrait of one of the twentieth century's most culturally rich times and places.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Book & Print Culture
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802099372
SKU
V9780802099372
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About Robert A. Davidson
Robert Davidson is an associate professor of Spanish and Catalan at the University of Toronto, and the author of Jazz Age Barcelona, also published by University of Toronto Press.

Reviews for Jazz Age Barcelona
Davidson's study is both a letter of introduction of Catalan modernism to the critical history of the global avant-garde and a transportation to a vitally creative and provocative lost age.
Marc Caplan
Hispanic Review, vol 78:04:10
‘Davidson’s Jazz Age Barcelona is an exemplary study of the relationships between print and popular culture in Barcelona… Scholars of European, ... Read more

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