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Paris Washboard: Superswing

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Marc Myers
Apr 19, 2021
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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 a 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 centu…

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