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UNINA9910779197103321 |
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Autore |
Stein Daniel <1975-> |
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Titolo |
Music is my life : Louis Armstrong, autobiography, and American jazz / / Daniel Stein |
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Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-48692-9 |
9786613582157 |
0-472-02850-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (360 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Jazz musicians - United States |
Jazz - History and criticism |
Autobiography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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"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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A groundbreaking study of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical practices |
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