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Subversive sounds : race and the birth of jazz in New Orleans

Subversive Sounds probes New Orleans?s history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art form?jazz. Drawing on oral histories, police reports, newspaper accounts, and vintage recordings, Charles Hersch brings to vivid life the neighborhoods and nightspots where jazz was born. This volume shows how musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Nick La Rocca, and Louis Armstrong negotiated New Orleans?s complex racial rules to pursue their craft and how, in order to widen their audiences, they became fluent in a variety of m.

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  • "Subversive Sounds probes New Orleans?s history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art form?jazz. Drawing on oral histories, police reports, newspaper accounts, and vintage recordings, Charles Hersch brings to vivid life the neighborhoods and nightspots where jazz was born. This volume shows how musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Nick La Rocca, and Louis Armstrong negotiated New Orleans?s complex racial rules to pursue their craft and how, in order to widen their audiences, they became fluent in a variety of m."@en
  • ""Hurricane Katrina threatened to wash away the history of an incomparable, culturally vibrant American city, while the aftermath exposed New Orleans' ugly, deeply rooted racial divisions. Subversive sounds, Charles Hersch's study of the role of race in teh origins of jazz, probes both sides of the city's heritage, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital art form"--Inside cover."

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