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Music Is My Life : Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Jazz Perspectives SeriesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (360 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472028504
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Music Is My LifeDDC classification:
  • 781.65092 B
LOC classification:
  • ML419
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction - "Music is my life, and I live to play" : Louis Armstrong's Jazz Autobiographics -- Chapter 1 - "I have always been a great observer" : New Orleans Musicking -- Chapter 2 - "I done forgot the words": Versioning Autobiography -- Chapter 3 - "Diddat Come Outa Mee?" : Writing Scat and Typing Swing -- Chapter 4 - "A happy go lucky sort of type of fellow" : The Productive Ambiguities of Minstrel Sounding -- Chapter 5 - "He didn't need black face-to be funny" : The Double Resonance of Postcolonial Performance -- Chapter 6 - "My mission is music" : Armstrong's Cultural Politics -- Conclusion - "What do you know about that?" : Final Thoughts on "Laughin' Louie" -- Notes -- Suggested Listening -- Suggested Further Reading -- Index.
Summary: A groundbreaking study of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical practices.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction - "Music is my life, and I live to play" : Louis Armstrong's Jazz Autobiographics -- Chapter 1 - "I have always been a great observer" : New Orleans Musicking -- Chapter 2 - "I done forgot the words": Versioning Autobiography -- Chapter 3 - "Diddat Come Outa Mee?" : Writing Scat and Typing Swing -- Chapter 4 - "A happy go lucky sort of type of fellow" : The Productive Ambiguities of Minstrel Sounding -- Chapter 5 - "He didn't need black face-to be funny" : The Double Resonance of Postcolonial Performance -- Chapter 6 - "My mission is music" : Armstrong's Cultural Politics -- Conclusion - "What do you know about that?" : Final Thoughts on "Laughin' Louie" -- Notes -- Suggested Listening -- Suggested Further Reading -- Index.

A groundbreaking study of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical practices.

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