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[Shapiro, Fred]

Thanks, James, for your help, much appreciated.  These would be enormously important finds if they were from 1913/14.  However, I checked the first two and they are not from that time period.  I didn't check the third one, but that is just too early and presumably is also later.
Note that Google Books dates material that is from a range of years bound together as if all of them were from the year of the first item.

Fred Shapiro


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On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:00:58 Zone+0000   "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>  wrote:
>I am working on compiling a definitive list of early (1915 - June 30, 1916) occurrences of the word "jazz" referring to a genre of music.  I do not currently have access to NewspaperArchive.  Is anyone with such access >willing to help me by searching the following phrases in that database ?
Here are a few occurrences 1912 to 1915 from Google Books

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1912 copyright    “Jazz”appears only on the last page in the Google Books entry, which could be the backcover of the 1912 edition or could be a later advertising flyer that gotattached later to the book Google used

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page 105 bottom of right-hand column and the photograph bothhave “jazz band”.  .  Also pages 157 and 205.  The 1914 date for the book seems to becorrect.



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Proceedings of a convention in December 1908, printed in1909

Page 83 first paragraph has several usages of “jazz” plusone of “jazz record” and one of “jazzy”


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