Louis Armstrong's New Orleans - Softcover

Brothers, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039333001X ISBN 13: 9780393330014

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007

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"Examine[s] the music with the care it deserves." -- Tom Wilmeth - Express Milwaukee "[Brothers's] provocative case is wholly convincing." -- Roger Lewis - Daily Mail "Superb history and a rocking good read." -- Jason Berry - New York Times Book Review

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In the early twentieth century, New Orleans was a place of colliding identities and histories, and Louis Armstrong was a gifted young man of psychological nimbleness. A dark-skinned, impoverished child, he grew up under low expectations, Jim Crow legislation, and vigilante terrorism. Yet he also grew up at the center of African American vernacular traditions from the Deep South, learning the ecstatic music of the Sanctified Church, blues played by street musicians, and the plantation tradition of ragging a tune. Louis Armstrong's New Orleans interweaves a searching account of early twentieth-century New Orleans with a narrative of the first twenty-one years of Armstrong's life. Drawing on a stunning body of first-person accounts, this book tells the rags-to-riches tale of Armstrong's early life and the social and musical forces that shaped him. The city and the musician are both extraordinary, their relationship unique, and their impact on American culture incalculable.

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• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 039333001X
• ISBN 13: 9780393330014
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400