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Probes New Orleans' history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art form - jazz. This book shows how musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Nick La Rocca, and Louis Armstrong negotiated New Orleans' complex racial rules to pursue their craft.

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"More than timely.... Hersch orchestrates voices of musicians on both sides of the racial divide in underscoring how porous the music made the boundaries of race and class." - New Orleans Times-Picayune"

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/03/2009
      ISBN13: 9780226328683, 978-0226328683
      ISBN10: 0226328686
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      Book Synopsis
      Probes New Orleans' history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art form - jazz. This book shows how musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Nick La Rocca, and Louis Armstrong negotiated New Orleans' complex racial rules to pursue their craft.

      Trade Review
      "More than timely.... Hersch orchestrates voices of musicians on both sides of the racial divide in underscoring how porous the music made the boundaries of race and class." - New Orleans Times-Picayune"

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