"Music Is My Life" is the first comprehensive analysis of Louis
Armstrong's autobiographical writings (including his books, essays,
and letters) and their relation to his musical and visual
performances. Combining approaches from autobiography theory,
literary criticism, intermedia studies, cultural history, and
musicology, Daniel Stein reconstructs Armstrong's performances of
his life story across various media and for different audiences,
complicating the monolithic and hagiographic views of the
musician.
The book will appeal to academic readers with an interest in
African American studies, jazz studies, musicology, and popular
culture, as well as general readers interested in Armstrong's life
and music, jazz, and twentieth-century entertainment. While not a
biography, it provides a key to understanding Armstrong's oeuvre as
well as his complicated place in American history and
twentieth-century media culture.
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