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Creating jazz counterpoint : New Orleans, barbershop harmony, and the blues / Vic Hobson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hobson, Vic, author.
- Series:
- American made music series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jazz--Louisiana--New Orleans--History and criticism.
- Jazz.
- Blues (Music).
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Blues (Music)--Louisiana--New Orleans--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the "First Man of Jazz." Much of the information that the book relied on came from a highly controversial source: Bunk Johnson. He claimed to have played with Bolden and that together they had pioneered jazz. Using oral histories, the Jazzmen interview notes, and unpublished archive material, this book confirms that Bunk Johnson did play with Bolden. This confirmation, in turn, has profound implications for Johnson's recorded legacy in describing the music of the early years of New Orleans jazz. How early jazz musicians improvised together and how the blues became a part of jazz has until now been a mystery. Part of the reason New Orleans jazz developed as it did is that all the prominent jazz pioneers, including Buddy Bolden, Bunk Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Johnny Dodds, and Kid Ory, sang in barbershop (or barroom) quartets. This book describes in both historical and musical terms how the practices of quartet singing were converted to the instruments of a jazz band, and how this, in turn, produced collectively improvised, blues-inflected jazz, that unique sound of New Orleans. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Jazzmen
- The Bolden legend
- Just bunk?
- Cracking-up a chord
- Bill Russell's American music
- The "creoles of color"
- The original Dixieland jazz band
- New Orleans : capital of jazz
- The blues and New Orleans jazz.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Apr. 8, 2014).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Joseph B. Glossberg Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hobson, Vic. Creating jazz counterpoint
- ISBN:
- 9781626740259
- 1626740259
- 9781617039928
- 1617039926
- Publisher Number:
- 99962187310
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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