{"product_id":"mister-jelly-roll-9780520225305","title":"Mister Jelly Roll","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA biography of Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton, one of the world's most influential composers of jazz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Alan Lomax has fashioned a biography that, for utter candor and spontaneity of utterance, rivals the self-revelations of Rousseau and Saint Augustine.\" - Chicago Tribune \"You get a fresh idea of what was behind the development of the new music that said so many things to so many people. You see that jazz was actually a cultural transmission, as Mr. Lomax puts it, a 'wordless counterpoint of protest and pride.' No one with even the slightest feeling for the subject can afford to miss this book.\" - San Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the 1993 Edition\u003cbr\u003e Preface to the 1973 Edition\u003cbr\u003e Prelude\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e LOUISIANA TOWN\u003cbr\u003e My Folks Was All Frenchmans\u003cbr\u003e Really Tremendous Sports\u003cbr\u003e Money in the Tenderloin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e INTERLUDE ONE: The Family\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e STORYVILLE\u003cbr\u003e Where the Birth of Jazz Originated From\u003cbr\u003e Uptown-Downtown\u003cbr\u003e Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm\u003cbr\u003e INTERLUDE TWO: The Boys in the Bands\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ALABAMA BOUND\u003cbr\u003e Half-hand Bigshot\u003cbr\u003e Those Battles of Music\u003cbr\u003e The Lion Broke Down the Door\u003cbr\u003e Jack the Bear\u003cbr\u003e Can't Remember All Those Towns\u003cbr\u003e Jelly Roll Blues\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I TOOK CALIFORNIA\u003cbr\u003e The Cadillac in Bloom\u003cbr\u003e Diamonds Pinned to My Underwear\u003cbr\u003e Mama Nita\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e INTERLUDE THREE:\u003cbr\u003e Hello, Central, Give Me Doctor Jazz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e THE BITTERS WITH THE SWEET\u003cbr\u003e Mabel\u003cbr\u003e Red Hot Pepper\u003cbr\u003e It Like to Broke My Heart\u003cbr\u003e Till the Butcher Cut Him Down\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Appendix One: The Tunes\u003cbr\u003e Appendix Two: The Records\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e by Lawrence Gushee\u003cbr\u003e Select Discography and Bibliography","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402812137815,"sku":"9780520225305","price":24.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mister-jelly-roll-9780520225305","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}