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Up from the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music since World War II

Up from the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music since World War II

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ISBN-13:	9781887366878
Publisher:	University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press
Publication date:	09/28/2009
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.80(d)

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New Orleans has always been a city of music and divergent cultures, where aristocratic French and Spanish colonists, working-class Irish and the African slave culture combined to produce a charismatic musical tradition. The authors begin their survey after World War II and trace the impact of the musicians of New Orleans on rhythm and blues, jazz, soul and the other popular musical styles of the day. The book looks closely, too, at the tradition of musical families as exemplified by clans like the Bechets and Bigards of the early 1900s and continues with the talented Marsalis family of today. They discuss well-known artists such as Professor Longhair and Fats Domino and scores of lesser known but talented locals. Complete with bibliography and discography. This is a comprehensive, detailed history. (November)

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The same New Orleans that produced Louis Armstrong in the 1920s has given the world Wynton Marsalis in the 1980s; the city continues to be an inspiring source of indigenous music. Rhythm and blues, modern jazz, and Mardi Gras Indian music have flourished in the postwar atmosphere. Fats Domino, one of the creators of rock'n'roll during the city's ``flush years'' of the 1950s, is still a resident. A writer, a guitarist, and a collector of recordings collaborated on this cultural history. They draw from an impressive variety of sources, including interviews with dozens of local musicians and personalities. Though this range of material occasionally distracts them from the topic at hand, the engaging style and thorough documentation make their book a valuable balance to the plethora of histories of New Orleans' earlier years. William Brockman, Drew Univ. Lib., Madison, N.J.

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