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Autore: | Hersch Charles <1956-> |
Titolo: | Subversive sounds : race and the birth of jazz in New Orleans / / Charles Hersch |
Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
Disciplina: | 781.65/20976335 |
Soggetto topico: | Jazz - Louisiana - New Orleans - History and criticism |
Music - Social aspects - Louisiana - New Orleans - History | |
Music and race | |
Soggetto non controllato: | race, racial, racism, jazz, music, genre, musician, freestyle, improvisation, new orleans, city, urban, louisiana, southern, history, historical, art, artistic, america, american, united states, usa, oral, police, report, newspaper, vintage, recording, louis armstrong, nick la rocca, jelly roll morton, audience, tradition, ethnic, ethnicity, culture, cultural, jim crow |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-270), discography (p. 271-273), and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Places -- Reaction -- Musicians -- Music -- Dissemination : Morton, La Rocca, and Armstrong. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Subversive Sounds probes New Orleans's history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art form—jazz. Drawing on oral histories, police reports, newspaper accounts, and vintage recordings, Charles Hersch brings to vivid life the neighborhoods and nightspots where jazz was born. This volume shows how musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Nick La Rocca, and Louis Armstrong negotiated New Orleans's complex racial rules to pursue their craft and how, in order to widen their audiences, they became fluent in a variety of m |
Titolo autorizzato: | Subversive sounds |
ISBN: | 1-281-95714-3 |
9786611957148 | |
0-226-32869-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910828529403321 |
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