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  • New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History

    by Bruce Boyd Raeburn ...
    Series series Jazz Perspectives
    New Orleans Style tells the tale of the recognition of New Orleans jazz as a discrete style and how that recognition affected the writing of American jazz history. The men and women who participated in the awakening of American jazz scholarship were partisans of a community of "hot" record collectors, whose interest in the origins of jazz was a foregone conclusion. As an international network of ... Read more

    $82.49 CAD

  • Walking with Legends

    Barry Martyn's New Orleans Jazz Odyssey

    Edited by Mick Burns ...
    Drummer, record producer, bandleader, jazz researcher, and cigar-chomping raconteur Barry Martyn is a New Orleans original who happens to have been born in England. Implausible though this may seem, it makes perfect sense to members of the New Orleans traditional jazz community, who view themselves as an extended family based on merit as much as nativity. For more than forty years, Martyn has been ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Hurricane Katrina in Transatlantic Perspective

    by James M. Boyden, Richard Campanella, Bruce Boyd Raeburn, Thomas Adams ...
    "There is no such thing as a 'natural' disaster," writes Romain Huret in his introduction to this multidisciplinary study of the events surrounding and the legacy of Hurricane Katrina. Though nature produced Katrina's rising waters and destructive winds, a vast array of manmade factors shaped the scope of the storm's impact as well as the local and national response to it. In Hurricane Katrina in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band

    More Than a Century of a New Orleans Icon

    by Sally Newhart ...
    A lively look at the long career of these legendary musicians, from a Storyville dance hall to the White House and beyond.In 1910, the Tuxedo Jazz Band played its first show at the Tuxedo Dance Hall in Storyville under Oscar Celestin. The popular ensemble would go on to play all over New Orleans, as well as across the South and the nation—and in 1953, it became the first jazz band to play the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Life of Cab Calloway

    by Alyn Shipton ...
    Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the "Hi-de-ho" chorus of "Minnie the Moocher," Cab Calloway exuded a sly charm and sophistication that endeared him to legions of fans. In Hi-de-ho, author Alyn Shipton offers the first full-length biography of Cab Calloway, whose vocal theatrics and flamboyant stage presence made him one of the highest-earning African American ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • New Orleans Jazz

    by Edward J. Branley ...
    Series series Images of America
    From the days when Buddy Bolden would blow his cornet to attract an audience from one New Orleans park to another, to the brass bands in clubs and on the streets today, jazz in New Orleans has been about simple things: getting people to snap their fingers, tap their toes, get up and clap their hands, and most importantly dance! From the 1890s to World War I, from uptown to Faubourg Treme and out ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Keeping the Beat on the Street

    The New Orleans Brass Band Renaissance

    by Mick Burns ...
    Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Keeping the Beat on the Street celebrates the renewed passion and pageantry among black brass bands in New Orleans. Mick Burns introduces the people who play the music and shares their insights, showing why New Orleans is the place where jazz continues to grow. Brass bands waned during the civil rights era but revived around 1970 and then flourished ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Hi-De-Ho : The Life Of Cab Calloway

    by Alyn Shipton ...
    Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the "Hi-de-ho" chorus of "Minnie the Moocher," Cab Calloway exuded a sly charm and sophistication that endeared him to legions of fans. In Hi-de-ho, author Alyn Shipton offers the first full-length biography of Cab Calloway, whose vocal theatrics and flamboyant stage presence made him one of the highest-earning African American ... Read more

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  • I Remember Jazz

    Six Decades Among the Great Jazzmen

    by Al Rose ...
    Al Rose has known virtually every noteworthy jazz musician of this century. For many of them he has organized concerts, composed songs that they later played or sang, and promoted their acts. He has, when called upon, bailed them out of jail, straightened out their finances, stood up for them at their weddings, and eulogized them at their funerals. He has caroused with them in bars and clubs from ... Read more

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  • The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

    Volume 12: Music

    by Charles Reagan Wilson ...
    Series Book 12 - The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
    Southern music has flourished as a meeting ground for the traditions of West African and European peoples in the region, leading to the evolution of various traditional folk genres, bluegrass, country, jazz, gospel, rock, blues, and southern hip-hop. This much-anticipated volume in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates an essential element of southern life and makes available for the ... Read more

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  • West Virginia's Traditional Country Music

    by Ivan M. Tribe, Jacob L. Bapst ...
    West Virginia has been known for a century as a rich repository of traditional country music and musicians. Beginning in the mid-1920s, phonograph recordings and radios brought this music to a wider audience. With the passing of time and the influence of commercialization, this music developed into what became first known as "hillbilly" and then into the more refined "country" because of its long ... Read more

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  • Fifty Cents and a Box Top

    The Creative Life of Nashville Session Musician Charlie McCoy

    by Charlie McCoy, Travis D. Stimeling ...
    Series series Sounding Appalachia
    From Ann-Margret to Bob Dylan and George Jones to Simon & Garfunkel, Nashville harmonica virtuoso and multi-instrumentalist Charlie McCoy has contributed to some of the most successful recordings of country, pop, and rock music of the last six decades. As the leader of the Hee Haw “Million-Dollar Band,” McCoy spent more than two decades appearing on the television screens of country music fans ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD