Keeping the Beat on the Street: The New Orleans Brass Band Renaissance - Hardcover

Burns, Mick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807130486 ISBN 13: 9780807130483

Verlag: Louisiana State University Press, 2006

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Book by Burns Mick

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"Brass band musicians are a wild bunch--they're hard to control. The street funk that the Rebirth [Brass Band] plays definitely isn't traditional--it might be in thirty years time."

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Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Keeping the Beat on the Street celebrates the renewed passion and pageantry among black brass bands in New Orleans. Mick Burns introduces the people who play the music and shares their insights, showing why New Orleans is the place where jazz continues to grow. Brass bands waned during the civil rights era but revived around 1970 and then flourished in the 1980s when the music became cool with the younger generation. In the only book to cover this revival, Burns interviews members from a variety of bands, including the Fairview Baptist Church Brass Band, the Dirty Dozen, Tuba Fats' Chosen Few, and the Rebirth Brass Band. He captures their thoughts about the music, their careers, audiences, influences from rap and hip-hop, the resurgence of New Orleans social and pleasure clubs and second lines, traditional versus funk style, recording deals, and touring. For anyone who loves jazz and the city where it was born, Keeping the Beat on the Street is a book to savor.

"We should be grateful to Mick Burns for undertaking the task of producing... the only book to cover the subject of what he rightly calls the brass band renaissance." -- New Orleans Music

"A welcome look at the history of brass bands. These oral histories provide a valuable contribution to New Orleans musical history.... What shines through the musicians' words is love of craft, love of culture." -- New Orleans Times-Picayune

"A seminal work about the Brass Bands of New Orleans." -- Louisiana Libraries

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• Verlag: Louisiana State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0807130486
• ISBN 13: 9780807130483
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264