%0 Journal Article
%T Negotiating Primitivist Modernisms: Louis Armstrong, Robert Goffin, and the Transatlantic Jazz Debate
%A Daniel Stein
%J European Journal of American Studies
%D 2011
%I European Association for American Studies
%R 10.4000/ejas.9395
%X ¡°Dear Pal Goffin,¡± Louis Armstrong wrote to his Belgian acquaintance, the lawyer, hobby journalist, and jazz historian Robert Goffin, on July 19, 1944. ¡°¡®Man¡ªI¡¯ve been trying to get in touch with you [¡­]. Here¡¯s another hundred dollars toward the five hundred. [¡­] So accept this hundred and I¡¯ll send the other before a ¡®Black Cat can ¡®Lick his ¡®Bu¡®hind¡¯ ¡­.. haw haw haw¡­¡± (80). Sending Goffin a batch of money along with this playfully worded missive, Armstrong was hoping for quick results. He ...
%U http://ejas.revues.org/9395