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Louis Armstrong's New Orleans (Paperback, New Ed)
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Louis Armstrong's New Orleans (Paperback, New Ed)
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In the early twentieth century, New Orleans was a place of
colliding identities and histories, and Louis Armstrong was a
gifted young man of psychological nimbleness. A dark-skinned,
impoverished child, he grew up under low expectations, Jim Crow
legislation, and vigilante terrorism. Yet he also grew up at the
center of African American vernacular traditions from the Deep
South, learning the ecstatic music of the Sanctified Church, blues
played by street musicians, and the plantation tradition of ragging
a tune. Louis Armstrong's New Orleans interweaves a searching
account of early twentieth-century New Orleans with a narrative of
the first twenty-one years of Armstrong's life. Drawing on a
stunning body of first-person accounts, this book tells the
rags-to-riches tale of Armstrong's early life and the social and
musical forces that shaped him. The city and the musician are both
extraordinary, their relationship unique, and their impact on
American culture incalculable.
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