TY - BOOK AU - Stein,Daniel TI - Music Is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz T2 - Jazz Perspectives Series SN - 9780472028504 AV - ML419 U1 - 781.65092 B PY - 2012/// CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press KW - Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 KW - Jazz musicians--United States--Biography KW - Jazz--History and criticism KW - Autobiography KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - A groundbreaking study of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical practices UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3415058 ER -