ISBN:
0472071807
,
0472051806
,
9780472071807
,
9780472051809
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
VIII, 349 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
Serie:
Jazz perspectives
Dissertationsvermerk:
Zugl.: Göttingen, Univ., Diss., 2012
DDC:
781.65092
Schlagwort(e):
Armstrong, Louis
;
Jazz musicians Biography
;
Jazz History and criticism
;
Autobiography
;
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
;
Jazz musicians
;
United States
;
Biography
;
Jazz
;
History and criticism
;
Autobiography
;
Autobiografie
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Armstrong, Louis 1901-1971
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
"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.
Anmerkung:
Includes discography (p. 325-326), bibliographical references (p. 327-333) and index
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