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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825356103321

Autore

Charters Samuel Barclay

Titolo

A trumpet around the corner : the story of New Orleans jazz / / Samuel Charters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2008

ISBN

1-62103-810-6

1-282-48568-7

9786612485688

1-60473-318-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 p.)

Collana

American made music series

Disciplina

781.6509763/35

Soggetti

Jazz - Louisiana - New Orleans - History and criticism

Jazz musicians - Louisiana - New Orleans

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 (p. 370-371) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; COUNTING OFF THE BEAT: AN INTRODUCTION; 1. A CITY LIKE NO OTHER; 2. PEOPLE, FACES; 3. A SOCIETY TO ITSELF; 4. PAPA JACK'S BOYS; 5. THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN; 6. ON THE CIRCUIT; 7. "JASS"; 8. THE FIRST SENSATIONAL MUSICAL NOVELTY OF 1917!; 9. SOME RECORD!; 10. SOUTHERN STOMPS; 11. RHYTHM KINGS; 12. MISTER JELLY; 13. BOUNCING AROUND; 14. OUT TO THE HALFWAY HOUSE; 15. KINGS OF NEW ORLEANS; 16. THE TIGER'S PAW; 17. THE PRODIGAL; 18. JAZZ NIGHTS; 19. GLORIES, REMEMBERED; 20. REVIVAL DAYS; 21. STRUTTIN'; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years. A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story of a century of jazz in New Orleans. Although there is still controversy over the racial origins and cultural sources of New Orleans jazz, Charters provides a balanced assessment of the role played by all three of the city's musical lineages--African American, white, and Creole--in jazz's formative years. Charters also maps the inroads blazed by the city's Italian immigrant musicians, who left thei