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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779197103321

Autore

Stein Daniel <1975->

Titolo

Music is my life : Louis Armstrong, autobiography, and American jazz / / Daniel Stein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2012

ISBN

1-280-48692-9

9786613582157

0-472-02850-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Collana

Jazz perspectives

Disciplina

781.65092

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Soggetti

Jazz musicians - United States

Jazz - History and criticism

Autobiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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.

Sommario/riassunto

A groundbreaking study of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical practices