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Subversive sounds : race and the birth of jazz in New Orleans / Charles Hersch.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hersch, Charles, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jazz--Louisiana--New Orleans--History and criticism.
- Jazz.
- Music--Social aspects--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- Music.
- Music and race.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Places
- Reaction
- Musicians
- Music
- Dissemination : Morton, La Rocca, and Armstrong.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-270), discography (p. 271-273), and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611957148
- 9781281957146
- 1281957143
- 9780226328690
- 0226328694
- OCLC:
- 476229271
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