The Jazz Scene.

The Historian | June 22, 1995| | Copyright

Eric Hobsbawm first published The Jazz Scene in 1959, with an updated edition appearing in 1961. Hobsbawm, one of the great labor and social historians of the mid twentieth century, published both these early editions under the pseudonym "Francis Newton" because, as he now explains, he and other scholars of his generation felt it inappropriate to use their professional names in their non-professional writings. With popular culture a growing academic staple, his own reputation for wide-ranging erudition and interpretive brilliance permanently established, and his interest in ...

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