Louis Armstrong's New Orleans

Name: Louis Armstrong's New Orleans
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ISBN: 9780393330014

ISBN-10: 039333001X

ISBN-13: 9780393330014

Edition: 2007

Authors: Thomas Brothers

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"The best book ever produced about Louis Armstrong by anyone other than the man himself."--Terry Teachout, "Commentary" 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…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.79" wide x 9.29" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Thomas Brothers is the author of Louis Armstrong's New Orleans and Louis Armstrong: In His Own Words. A professor of music at Duke University, he lives with his family in Durham, North Carolina.