Jazz on the River

Name: Jazz on the River
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ISBN: 9780226437330

ISBN-10: 0226437337

ISBN-13: 9780226437330

Edition: 74th 2005

Authors: William Howland Kenney

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'Jazz on the River' describes how musical entrepreneurs gave the music of New Orleans to mainstream America in the 1920s, by quite literally sending their musicians upstream, aboard riverboats that plied the Mississippi waterways every summer.

Book details

List price: $27.50
Edition: 74th
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.92" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Introduction : playing changes : music, movement, and the performance of power on "America's River Nile"



"Masters of the river" : Streckfus Steamers, Inc., and the "swan complex"



Fate Marable, musical professionalism, and the great migration



Groovin' on the river : Louis Armstrong and riverboat culture



From Beale Street to Market Street : music and movement through Memphis and St. Louis



"Blue river" : Bix Beiderbecke and Jess Stacy on the Mississippi



Steamin' to the end of the line : jazz on, along, and beyond the Ohio River


Epilogue : the decline and fall of excursion boat jazz in St. Louis



Excursion boat musicians



River songs and tunes