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Music is my life : Louis Armstrong, autobiography, and American jazz / Daniel Stein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stein, Daniel, 1975-
- Series:
- Jazz perspectives (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
- Jazz perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971.
- Armstrong, Louis.
- Jazz musicians--United States--Biography.
- Jazz musicians.
- Jazz--History and criticism.
- Jazz.
- Autobiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A groundbreaking study of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical practices
- Contents:
- "Music is my life and I love to play": Louis Armstrong's jazz autobiographics
- "I have always been a great observer" : New Orleans musicking
- " I done forgot the words": versioning autobiography
- "Diddat come outa mee?" writing scat and typing swing
- "A happy go lucky sort of type of fellow": the productive ambiguities of minstrel sounding
- "He didn't need black face to be funny": the double resonance of postcolonial performance
- "My mission is music": Armstrong's cultural politics
- "What do you know about that?": final thoughts on 'Laughin' Louie.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9786613582157
- 9781280486920
- 1280486929
- 9780472028504
- 0472028502
- OCLC:
- 794620709
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.2871999
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