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Jazz on the River (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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Jazz on the River (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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Just after World War I, jazz began a journey along America's
waterways from its birthplace in New Orleans. For the first time in
any organized way, steam-driven boats left town during the summer
months to travel up the Mississippi River, bringing this exotic new
music to the rest of the nation. In Jazz on the River, William
Howland Kenney brings to life the vibrant history of this music and
its newfound mainstream popularity among the American people. Here
for the first time readers can learn about the lives and music of
the levee roustabouts promoting riverboat jazz and their
relationships with such great early jazz adventurers as Louis
Armstrong, Fate Marable, Warren "Baby" Dodds, and Jess Stacy.
Kenney follows the boats from Memphis to St. Louis, where new
styles of jazz were soon produced, all the way up the Ohio River,
where the music captivated audiences in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.
Jazz on the River concludes with the story of the decline of the
old paddle wheelers - and thus riverboat jazz - on the inland
waterways after World War II. The enduring silence of our rivers,
Kenney argues, reminds us of the loss of such a distinctive musical
tradition. But riverboat jazz still lives on in myriad
permutations, each one in tune with its own time.
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