Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans - Charles B. Hersch - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226328683 - March 1, 2009
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Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans

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Probes New Orleans' history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art form - jazz. This book shows how musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Nick La Rocca, and Louis Armstrong negotiated New Orleans' complex racial rules to pursue their craft.


304 pages, 14 halftones, 2 maps

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released March 1, 2009
ISBN13 9780226328683
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 304
Dimensions 154 × 227 × 17 mm   ·   484 g

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