ISBN:
9780226328690
,
0226328694
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 289 p.)
DDC:
781.65/20976335
Keywords:
Geschichte
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MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz
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Jazz
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Music and race
;
Music / Social aspects
;
Geschichte
;
Gesellschaft
;
Musik
;
Jazz History and criticism
;
Music Social aspects
;
History
;
Music and race
;
Jazz
;
Gesellschaft
;
New Orleans, La.
;
New Orleans, La.
;
Jazz
;
Gesellschaft
;
Geschichte
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-270), discography (p. 271-273), and index
,
Places -- Reaction -- Musicians -- Music -- Dissemination : Morton, La Rocca, and Armstrong
,
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
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