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Roll with it : brass bands in the streets of New Orleans / Matt Sakakeeny ; with images by Willie Birch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sakakeeny, Matt, 1971-
- Series:
- Refiguring American music.
- Refiguring American music
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brass bands--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Brass bands.
- African American musicians--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- African American musicians.
- Brass instrument players--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Brass instrument players.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Roll With It is a firsthand account of the contradictory lives of New Orleans brass-band musicians. They are celebrated as cultural icons within the music scene; outside it, they are treated as faceless black males-subject to poverty, racial marginalization, and urban violence.
- Contents:
- Prologue: crossing the threshold
- Introduction: forward motion
- Onward and upward
- Constraints
- Progressions
- Voices
- Conclusion: engagements
- Afterword: music and image in the art of Willie Birch / Willie Birch and Matt sakakeeny.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822355670
- 0822355671
- 9780822377207
- 0822377209
- OCLC:
- 860713389
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