Louis Armstrong, an American genius /
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Author / Creator: | Collier, James Lincoln, 1928- |
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Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1983. |
Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 383 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
Series: | OUP E-Books. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11150921 |
ISBN: | 1423736532 9781423736530 9780195037272 0195037278 0195033779 9780195033779 9786610439317 6610439311 0195037278 0195033779 9780195033779 |
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Digital file characteristics: | data file |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Discography: pages 369-371. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record. |
Summary: | Louis Armstrong. "Satchmo." To millions of fans, he was just a great entertainer. But to jazz aficionados, he was one of the most important musicians of our times--not only a key figure in the history of jazz but a formative influence on all of 20th-century popular music. Set against the backdrop of New Orleans, Chicago, and New York during the "jazz age", Collier re-creates the saga of an old-fashioned black man making it in a white world. He chronicles Armstrong's rise as a musician, his scrapes with the law, his relationships with four wives, and his frequent feuds with fellow musicians Earl Hines and Zutty Singleton. He also sheds new light on Armstrong's endless need for approval, his streak of jealousy, and perhaps most important, what some consider his betrayal of his gift as he opted for commercial success and stardom. A unique biography, knowledgeable, insightful, and packed with information, it ends with Armstrong's death in 1971 as one of the best-known figures in American entertainment. |
Other form: | Print version: Collier, James Lincoln, 1928- Louis Armstrong, an American genius. New York : Oxford University Press, 1983 |
Standard no.: | 9780195033779 |
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