Stein, Daniel. <br/><br/>
Music Is My Life :  Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (360 pages) 
 - Jazz Perspectives Series .
 - Jazz Perspectives Series .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> A groundbreaking study of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical practices. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780472028504 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971.<br/>Jazz musicians--United States--Biography.<br/>Jazz--History and criticism.<br/>Autobiography.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ML419 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>781.65092 B