Title: Paris: The Musical Kaleidescope 1870-1925
Author: Brody, Elaine
Publisher: George Braziller (1987)
ISBN: 080761176x
Call Number: 780.9443 B785p
Notes: An overview of a 55-year period of major developments in music and the arts as Paris became the cultural center of the world.

Title: French Cultural Politics & Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War
Author: Fulcher, Jane F.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (1999)
ISBN: 9780195120219
Call Number: 780.944 F956f
Notes: Examines the effect of the French political environment at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th Centuries on composers such as Debussy, Satie, D'Indy, and others.

Title: The Ox on the Roof: Scenes From Musical Life in Paris in the Twenties
Author: Harding, James
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (1972)
ISBN: ocm00508218
Call Number: 780.944 H219o
Notes: "Les Six" (the group of Pariasian composers comprised of Auric, Durey, Honneger, Milhaud, Poulenc, and Tailleferre) began to become known through poet/playwright Jean Cocteau and his and Milhaud's famous 1919 ballet "Le Boeuf sur le toit".

Title: Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Author: Hill, Peter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521622219
Call Number: 782.9509 St82h
Notes: Stravinsky's famous ballet, composed for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, caused a riot when it premiered in Paris in 1913. It is still one of the most famous pieces of 20th Century classical music.

Title: Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris
Author: Jackson, Jeffrey H.
Publisher: Duke University Press (2003)
ISBN: 9780822331247
Notes: American jazz had an enormous influence in France, especially with the arrival of GIs at the end of WW!

Title: The Harlequin Years: Music in Paris 1917-1929
Author: Nichols, Roger
Publisher: University of California Press (2002)
ISBN: 9780520237360
Call Number: 780.9443 N518h
Notes: A well-known music historian recounts the incredibly rich and creative cultural life of Paris during the period following First World War.