Subversive sounds : race and the birth of jazz in New Orleans /
Subversive Sounds probes New Orleans?s history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art form?jazz. Drawing on oral histories, police reports, newspaper accounts, and vintage recordings, Charles Hersch brings to vivid l...
| Основен автор: | Hersch, Charles, 1956- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
℗♭2007.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=260141 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Subversive sounds. |
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Subversive Sounds probes New Orleans?s history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art form?jazz. Drawing on oral histories, police reports, newspaper accounts, and vintage recordings, Charles Hersch brings to vivid life the neighborhoods and nightspots where jazz was born. This volume shows how musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Nick La Rocca, and Louis Armstrong negotiated New Orleans?s complex racial rules to pursue their craft and how, in order to widen their audiences, they became fluent in a variety of m. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-270), discography (p. 271-273) , and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226328690 0226328694 1281957143 9781281957146 |