Jazz on the river / William Howland Kenney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kenney, William Howland.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Rivers--United States--Songs and music--History and criticism.

Rivers.

United States.

Genre:

Songs.

Music.

Physical Description:

x, 229 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Contents:

Masters of the river : Streckfus Steamers, Inc. and the "swan complex"

Fate marable, musical professionalism, and the great migration

Groovin' on the river : Louis Armstrong and riverboat culture

From Beale Street to Market Street : music and movement through Memphis and St. Louis

"Blue river" : Bix Beiderbecke and Jess Stacy on the Mississippi

Steamin' to the end of the line : jazz on, along, and beyond the Ohio River

Epilogue: the decline and fall of excursion boat jazz in St. Louis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-211) and index.

ISBN:

0226437337

OCLC:

55886376