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Subversive Sounds
Language: en
Pages: 304
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Subversive Sounds probes New Orleans’s history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital A
Jazz, Rags & Blues, Book 1
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The work of multiple scholars is combined in this single volume, bringing together in conversation the traditions of brass instrumentalism and jazz idiom. Early