Education
Columbia University; Cornell University.
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How does the jazz of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker fit into the great tradition of the modern arts between 1920 and 1950? In this text, cultural historian Alfred Appel provides the answer.
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Columbia University; Cornell University.
As a student at Cornell University, Appel took a course from Nabokov. His education was interrupted by a stint in the Army, after which he completed his undergraduate education and Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature at Columbia University. After teaching at Columbia for a few years, he joined the faculty of Northwestern University, where he taught until his retirement in 2000.
He died of heart failure.
Appel was married until his death to Nina Appel, dean of Loyola University Chicago"s law school from 1983-2004. They had two children, Karen Oshman and television writer and producer Richard Appel.
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