Subversive Sounds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Subversive Sounds write by Charles B. Hersch. This book was released on 2008-09-15. Subversive Sounds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Up from the Cradle of Jazz
Up from the Cradle of Jazz - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Up from the Cradle of Jazz write by Jason Berry. This book was released on 2009. Up from the Cradle of Jazz available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Up from the Cradle of Jazz is the inside story of New Orleans music from the rise of rhythm and blues through the post-Hurricane Katrina resurrection.
Traditional New Orleans Jazz
Traditional New Orleans Jazz - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Traditional New Orleans Jazz write by Thomas W. Jacobsen. This book was released on 2011-03-25. Traditional New Orleans Jazz available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. About a century after its beginnings, traditional jazz remains the definitive music of New Orleans and an international hallmark of the city. The enduring sound and boundless energy of this American art form have produced a long list of jazz legends. From Lionel Ferbos -- the city's oldest working jazz musician -- to Grammy winner Irvin Mayfield, the musical heritage of traditional jazz lives on through each player's passion. In Traditional New Orleans Jazz, veteran jazz journalist Thomas Jacobsen discusses that legacy with Ferbos, Mayfield, and a who's who of the present-day scene's "trad jazz" players. Through intimate conversations with jazz veterans and up-and-coming talent, Jacobsen elicits honest, witty, and sometimes comedic discussions that reveal a strong mutual devotion to do one thing -- compose and play music inspired by the Crescent City's earliest jazz musicians. Traditional New Orleans Jazz presents local perspectives on what has become an international language with interviews from Lucien Barbarin, Evan Christopher, Duke Heitger, Leroy Jones, Dr. Michael White, and many more. Jacobsen also notes the stewardship of traditional jazz means more than making music. Its longevity relies on teaching and innovation, furthering the inextricable ties between the music and the men who make it. Traditional New Orleans jazz is a culture of its own, and the players in this remarkable volume are its native speakers.
Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans
Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans write by Richard Brent Turner. This book was released on 2016-10-17. Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This scholarly study demonstrates “that while post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans is changing, the vibrant traditions of jazz . . . must continue” (Journal of African American History). An examination of the musical, religious, and political landscape of black New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina, this revised edition looks at how these factors play out in a new millennium of global apartheid. Richard Brent Turner explores the history and contemporary significance of second lines—the group of dancers who follow the first procession of church and club members, brass bands, and grand marshals in black New Orleans’s jazz street parades. Here music and religion interplay, and Turner’s study reveals how these identities and traditions from Haiti and West and Central Africa are reinterpreted. He also describes how second line participants create their own social space and become proficient in the arts of political disguise, resistance, and performance.
New Orleans Jazz and Second Line Drumming
New Orleans Jazz and Second Line Drumming - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Orleans Jazz and Second Line Drumming write by Herlin Riley. This book was released on 1995. New Orleans Jazz and Second Line Drumming available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is based on performances and transcriptions from the DCI music videos Herlin Riley: Ragtime & beyond, and Johnny Vidacovich: Street beats modern applications. Additional interviews and essays on: Baby Dodds, Vernel Fournier, Ed Blackwell, James Black and Freddie Kohlman, Smokey Johnson, David Lee, and bassist Bill Huntington.
