Drawing on first-person accounts, this book tells the rags-to-riches tale of Louis Armstrong\'s early life and the social and musical forces in New Orleans that shaped him, their unique relationship, and their impact on American culture.
The city and the musician are both extraordinary, their relationship unique, and their impact on American culture incalculable..
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.
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.
The city and the musician are both extraordinary, their relationship unique, and their impact on American culture incalculable.
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.
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.
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.
A dark-skinned, impoverished child, he grew up under low expectations, Jim Crow legislation, and vigilante terrorism.
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.
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Drawing on first-person accounts, this book tells the rags-to-riches tale of Louis Armstrong\'s early life and the social and musical forces in New Orleans that shaped him, their unique relationship, and their impact on American culture
