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Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans by Charles B Hersch
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- Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans
- Publication Date
- 2009-03-01
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- 304
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- 9780226328683
- Subject Area
- Music, History
- Publication Name
- Subversive Sounds : Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Subject
- Philosophy & Social Aspects, Ethnomusicology, Genres & Styles / Latin, United States / General, Genres & Styles / Jazz
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Type
- Textbook
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- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
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- 0.1 in
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- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 15.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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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 musical traditions from diverse ethnic sources. These encounters with other music and races subverted their own racial identities and changed the way they played-a musical miscegenation that, in the shadow of Jim Crow, undermined the pursuit of racial purity and indelibly transformed American culture. "More than timely . . . Hersch orchestrates voices of musicians on both sides of the racial divide in underscoring how porous the music made the boundaries of race and class."- New Orleans Times-Picayune
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University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226328686
ISBN-13
9780226328683
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Publication Name
Subversive Sounds : Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Philosophy & Social Aspects, Ethnomusicology, Genres & Styles / Latin, United States / General, Genres & Styles / Jazz
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Music, History
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Item Weight
15.1 Oz
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Ml3508.8.N48h47 2009
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"[Hersch''s] argument is convincing, his writing engaging, and his musical analyses compelling and seductive."-- Perspectives on Politics, This is a fresh and original analysis of the context of the birth of jazz. In addition to offering a new and intellectually stimulating interpretation of the role of race, politics, and social class in the music's origins, Hersch is the first in over a generation to delve deeply into the racial aspects of the lives and work of the earliest jazz musicians in New Orleans., "This is a fresh and original analysis of the context of the birth of jazz. In addition to offering a new and intellectually stimulating interpretation of the role of race, politics, and social class in the music's origins, Hersch is the first in over a generation to delve deeply into the racial aspects of the lives and work of the earliest jazz musicians in New Orleans."-William Howland Kenney, author of Jazz on the River, Subversive Sounds is as thoroughly researched as it is groundbreaking. In his study of New Orleans jazz, Charles Hersch is scrupulously sensitive to the music, but he has also surveyed the birthplace of jazz with the keen eye of a social historian. I was especially impressed by his willingness to consider the role of white players-as well as black and Creole musicians-in the racial politics of early jazz., Hersch has the grasp of time and place that is the hallmark of all the most worthwhile historians. He has brought that to bear effectively here, and the results are illuminating for anyone wanting to understand how this music called jazz came to be., "A provocative new history. . . . Hersch illuminates how musicians of color drew from realities that few white people experienced in forging a form of dance music for people of both races. In that sense, Subversive Sounds is more than timely. . . . Tapping oral histories from the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane, Hersch orchestrates voices of musicians on both sides of the racial divide in underscoring how porous the music made the boundaries of race and class. He writes, too, with an edgy sense of how music functioned."--Times-Picayune, "A provocative new history. . . . Hersch illuminates how musicians of color drew from realities that few white people experienced in forging a form of dance music for people of both races. In that sense, Subversive Sounds is more than timely. . . . Tapping oral histories from the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane, Hersch orchestrates voices of musicians on both sides of the racial divide in underscoring how porous the music made the boundaries of race and class. He writes, too, with an edgy sense of how music functioned."- Times-Picayune, Subversive Sounds underscores the importance of thinking in subtle, complex, and nuanced ways about the relationship between jazz and race. Engagingly written and cleverly framed, Hersch's work displays ample skill and vision while showing us how profoundly race mattered in early New Orleans jazz. This valuable and important book belongs on the top shelf of new jazz studies., Exhaustive research informs [the author''s] tightly orchestrated analysis of musical performances and deft portraits of individual musicians, which stand out amid the richly textured descriptions of New Orleans life., Subversive Sounds underscores the importance of thinking in subtle, complex, and nuanced ways about the relationship between jazz and race. Engagingly written and cleverly framed, Hersch's work displays ample skill and vision while showing us how profoundly race mattered in early New Orleans jazz. This valuable and important book belongs on the top shelf of new jazz studies., "Subversive Soundsis as thoroughly researched as it is groundbreaking. In his study of New Orleans jazz, Charles Hersch is scrupulously sensitive to the music, but he has also surveyed the birthplace of jazz with the keen eye of a social historian. I was especially impressed by his willingness to consider the role of white players-as well as black and Creole musicians-in the racial politics of early jazz."-Krin Gabbard, author ofJammin' at the Margins: Jazz and American Cinema, " Subversive Sounds is as thoroughly researched as it is groundbreaking. In his study of New Orleans jazz, Charles Hersch is scrupulously sensitive to the music, but he has also surveyed the birthplace of jazz with the keen eye of a social historian. I was especially impressed by his willingness to consider the role of white players-as well as black and Creole musicians-in the racial politics of early jazz."-Krin Gabbard, author of Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and American Cinema, A provocative new history. . . . Hersch illuminates how musicians of color drew from realities that few white people experienced in forging a form of dance music for people of both races. In that sense, Subversive Sounds is more than timely. . . . Tapping oral histories from the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane, Hersch orchestrates voices of musicians on both sides of the racial divide in underscoring how porous the music made the boundaries of race and class. He writes, too, with an edgy sense of how music functioned., This Well-Documented History Contributes to the Dialog on the Role of Race in the Origins of Jazz., A provocative new history. . . . Hersch illuminates how musicians of color drew from realities that few white people experienced in forging a form of dance music for people of both races. In that sense, Subversive Sounds is more than timely. . . . Tapping oral histories from the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane, Hersch orchestrates voices of musicians on both sides of the racial divide in underscoring how porous the music made the boundaries of race and class. He writes, too, with an edgy sense of how music functioned., "[Hersch''s] argument is convincing, his writing engaging, and his musical analyses compelling and seductive."--Perspectives on Politics, Exhaustive research informs [the author's] tightly orchestrated analysis of musical performances and deft portraits of individual musicians, which stand out amid the richly textured descriptions of New Orleans life., Subversive Sounds is as thoroughly researched as it is groundbreaking. In his study of New Orleans jazz, Charles Hersch is scrupulously sensitive to the music, but he has also surveyed the birthplace of jazz with the keen eye of a social historian. I was especially impressed by his willingness to consider the role of white players--as well as black and Creole musicians--in the racial politics of early jazz., [Hersch's] argument is convincing, his writing engaging, and his musical analyses compelling and seductive., "This well-documented history contributes to the dialog on the role of race in the origins of jazz."--Library Journal, "This well-documented history contributes to the dialog on the role of race in the origins of jazz."-- Library Journal, " Subversive Sounds underscores the importance of thinking in subtle, complex, and nuanced ways about the relationship between jazz and race. Engagingly written and cleverly framed, Hersch''s work displays ample skill and vision while showing us how profoundly race mattered in early New Orleans jazz. This valuable and important book belongs on the top shelf of new jazz studies."-John Gennari, author of Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics
Table of Content
Acknowledgments New Orleans Maps Opening Riff: Jelly Roll Morton's Stars and Stripes Introduction 1 Places 2 Reaction 3 Musicians 4 Music 5 Dissemination: Morton, La Rocca, and Armstrong Conclusion Notes Bibliography Discography and Videography Index
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
781.6520976335
Dewey Edition
22
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