A trumpet around the corner : the story of New Orleans jazz /

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Author / Creator:Charters, Samuel, 1929-2015.
Imprint:Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2008.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 380 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:American made music series
American made music series.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13538569
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ISBN:9781604733181
1604733187
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9781282485686
9786612485688
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9781578068982
1578068983
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-371) and index.
English.
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Summary:Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years. A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story of a century of jazz in New Orleans. Although there is still controversy over the racial origins and cultural sources of New Orleans jazz, Charters provides a balanced assessment of the role played by all three of the city's musical lineages--African American, white, and Creole--in jazz's formative years. Charters also maps the inroads blazed by the city's Italian immigrant musicians, who left thei.
Other form:Print version: Charters, Samuel Barclay. Trumpet around the corner. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2008 9781578068982 1578068983