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ISBN: | 9781604733181 1604733187 1282485687 9781282485686 9786612485688 661248568X 9781578068982 1578068983
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-371) and index. English. Print version record.
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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.
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Other form: | Print version: Charters, Samuel Barclay. Trumpet around the corner. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2008 9781578068982 1578068983
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