Music is my life : Louis Armstrong, autobiography, and American jazz / Daniel Stein.

A groundbreaking study of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical practices.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stein, Daniel, 1975-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012.
Series:	Jazz perspectives (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Subjects:	Armstrong, Louis, > 1901-1971. Armstrong, Louis, > 1901-1971 Jazz musicians > United States > Biography. Jazz > History and criticism. Autobiography. autobiography (genre) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians. MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Jazz. MUSIC > General. Autobiography Jazz Jazz musicians United States Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

"Music is my life and I love to play": Louis Armstrong's jazz autobiographics
"I have always been a great observer" : New Orleans musicking
" I done forgot the words": versioning autobiography
"Diddat come outa mee?" writing scat and typing swing
"A happy go lucky sort of type of fellow": the productive ambiguities of minstrel sounding
"He didn't need black face to be funny": the double resonance of postcolonial performance
"My mission is music": Armstrong's cultural politics
"What do you know about that?": final thoughts on 'Laughin' Louie.

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