David H. Rosenthal (1945–1992) was an American

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, and

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. He wrote mostly on the history of

jazz music Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major f ...

and was also an important translator of

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literature. Among his translations was the first English rendering of the Catalan epic "

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," of which

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said, "I swear to you, my friend, it's the best book of its kind in the world."

Selected books

* ''Eyes on the Street'' (1974) * ''Modern Catalan Poetry'' (editor, 1979) * ''Loves of the Poets: Poems'' (1989) * ''Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955–1965'' (1992) * ''The Journey: Poems'' (1992) * ''Four Postwar Catalan Poets'' (editor, 1994)

References

External links

Catalan Biography

David H. Rosenthal legacy
* New York Times obituar

American book editors American writers about music Catalan–English translators Spanish–English translators Portuguese–English translators 1945 births 1992 deaths 20th-century American poets 20th-century translators 20th-century American non-fiction writers {{US-poet-1940s-stub