Screen LibraryMusic is my life：Louis Armstrong, autobiography, and American jazz
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University of Michigan Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Ann Arbor |
| Publication Dates: | c2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Jazz perspectives |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 349 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780472071807 (cloth : alk. paper) 0472071807 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780472051809 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0472051806 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780472028504 (e-book) 0472028502 (e-book) |
| Index Number: | K837 |
| CLC: | K837.125.76 |
| Call Number: | K837.125.76/A736S |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. "Music is my life and I love to play": Louis Armstrong's jazz autobiographics -- "I have always been a great observer" : New Orleans musicking -- " I done forgot the words": versioning autobiography -- "Diddat come outa mee?" writing scat and typing swing -- "A happy go lucky sort of type of fellow": the productive ambiguities of minstrel sounding -- "He didn't need black face to be funny": the double resonance of postcolonial performance -- "My mission is music": Armstrong's cultural politics -- "What do you know about that?": final thoughts on 'Laughin' Louie. |