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Paperback Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans Book

ISBN: 0226328686

ISBN13: 9780226328683

Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans

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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...

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