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Jazz à la Creole

Author : Caroline Vézina
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496842456
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Jazz à la Creole written by Caroline Vézina and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the formative years of jazz (1890–1917), the Creoles of Color—as they were then called—played a significant role in the development of jazz as teachers, bandleaders, instrumentalists, singers, and composers. Indeed, music penetrated all aspects of the life of this tight-knit community, proud of its French heritage and language. They played and/or sang classical, military, and dance music as well as popular songs and cantiques that incorporated African, European, and Caribbean elements decades before early jazz appeared. In Jazz à la Creole: French Creole Music and the Birth of Jazz, the author describes the music played by the Afro-Creole community since the arrival of enslaved Africans in La Louisiane, then a French colony, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, emphasizing the many cultural exchanges that led to the development of jazz. Caroline Vézina has compiled and analyzed a broad scope of primary sources found in diverse locations from New Orleans to Quebec City, Washington, DC, New York City, and Chicago. Two previously unpublished interviews add valuable insider knowledge about the music on French plantations and the danses Créoles held in Congo Square after the Civil War. Musical and textual analyses of cantiques provide new information about the process of their appropriation by the Creole Catholics as the French counterpart of the Negro spirituals. Finally, a closer look at their musical practices indicates that the Creoles sang and improvised music and/or lyrics of Creole songs, and that some were part of their professional repertoire. As such, they belong to the Black American and the Franco-American folk music traditions that reflect the rich cultural heritage of Louisiana.

Le Ker Creole

Author : Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes
Publisher : University of New Orleans Press
ISBN 13 : 9781608011728
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Le Ker Creole written by Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes and published by University of New Orleans Press. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For hundreds of years in Louisiana, lullabies were hummed, prayers were called, opera was performed, la-las were danced, and work and carnival songs were sung in Creole. A francophone language with connections to West Africa, Louisiana Creole is now one of the most endangered languages in the world. In this musical ethnography, you will find fifteen original and traditional Creole songs that cross time and musical genres such as blues, zydeco, and traditional jazz. African spirits, maroon villages, Congo Square, southwest Louisiana dance halls, and the Northside Skull and Bone Gang all make appearances. Beginning with an introduction to the history and grammar of the language, the accompanying essays include in-depth interviews with Creole speakers and their descendants, as well as photography, original artwork, archival documents, and altars. The book concludes with the Creole lyrics for each song, along with their English translations. Avek ye, vou ve 'koute, lir, chante, epi pale an Creole. (With them, you will listen, read, sing, and speak in Creole.) Includes audio CD of Creole compositions from Louisiana.

Creole Trombone

Author : John McCusker
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617036269
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Creole Trombone written by John McCusker and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-08-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of the great band leader and New Orleans Jazz performer

Jazz À la Creole

Author : Caroline Vézina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781496842404
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Jazz À la Creole written by Caroline Vézina and published by . This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly volume dedicated to French Creole music and its contribution to the development of jazz

Chord Changes on the Chalkboard

Author : Al Kennedy
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461657466
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Chord Changes on the Chalkboard written by Al Kennedy and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005-10-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's fascination with New Orleans stems from the allure of the music of the city_music that owes its origins and development to many sources. Until now, popular and scholarly books, dissertations, and articles that attempt to explain these sources have failed to recognize the unsung heroes of the New Orleans jazz scene: the teachers in its public schools. Through more than 90 original interviews and extensive research in New Orleans' historical collections, Dr. Kennedy documents ways that public school teachers pushed an often unwilling urban institution to become an important structure that transmitted jazz and the other musical traditions of the city to future musicians. Music legends from Louis Armstrong to Ellis Marsalis Jr._who also provides the foreword_are just two of the many well-known former students of the New Orleans public schools. Chord Changes on the Chalkboard shows that, particularly after the 1920s, public school students benefited not only from the study of instrumental music and theory, but also from direct exposure to musicians, many of whom were invited to perform for the students. The impact the teachers had on generations of musicians and music fans is undeniable, yet their teaching techniques are only part of the story. In addition to the successes enjoyed with their students, the teachers' own musical experiences, recordings, and performances are also examined. The interaction between teachers and students in New Orleans public school classrooms opens a new field of research for music historians, and this book is the first to document ways in which public school teachers acted as mentors to shape the future of jazz and the music of New Orleans. An important addition to its field, Chord Changes on a Chalkboard will provide invaluable information for jazz fans and historians, music scholars and students, and it is also useful reading for any public school teacher. A must for any music library, it should also be a welcome addition to any collection supporting African-American history or popular culture.

Brassroots Democracy

Author : Benjamin Barson
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819501131
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Brassroots Democracy written by Benjamin Barson and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brassroots Democracy recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed. Benjamin Barson presents a "music history from below," following the musicians as they built communes, performed at Civil Rights rallies, and participated in general strikes. Perhaps most importantly, Barson locates the first emancipatory revolution in the Americas—Haiti—as a nexus for cultural and political change in nineteenth-century Louisiana. In dialogue with the work of recent historians who have inverted traditional histories of Latin American and Caribbean independence by centering the influence of Haitian activists abroad, this work traces the impact of Haitian culture in New Orleans and its legacy in movements for liberation. Brassroots Democracy demonstrates how Black musicians infused participatory music practice with innovative forms of grassroots democracy. Late nineteenth-century Black brass bands and activists rehearsed these participatory models through collective performance that embodied the democratic ethos of Black Reconstruction. Termed "Brassroots Democracy," this fusion of political and musical spheres revolutionized both. Brassroots Democracy illuminates the Black Atlantic struggles that informed music-as-world-making from the Haitian Revolution through Reconstruction to the jazz revolution. The work theorizes the roots of the New Orleans brass band tradition in the social relations grown in maroon ecologies across the Americas. Their fruits contributed to the socio-sonic commons of the music we call jazz today.

Early Jazz

Author : Fumi Tomita
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438496397
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Early Jazz written by Fumi Tomita and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Jazz is an overview of the beginnings of jazz from its nineteenth-century roots through 1929, when elements of the Swing Era began to emerge. It is the first book on early jazz history in over fifty years and fills a compelling need for an update that reflects recent research. With a broad definition of jazz that encompasses the artistic and the commercial, the book's inclusive tone allows for a wide spectrum of musicians, including not only pioneering African American and white musicians but also those who are commonly skipped or skimmed over in jazz history textbooks—lesser-known sidemen, prominent instrumentalists, entertainers or novelty performers, women, vocalists, and American jazz musicians who introduced jazz on their travels around the world. Nineteen songs are analyzed in depth, but no musical knowledge is required to understand or to read Early Jazz. The book is written as an introduction for fans, students, musicians, historians, scholars, and anyone who is interested in this fascinating era of jazz history.

On Jazz

Author : Alyn Shipton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110883423X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book On Jazz written by Alyn Shipton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and fascinating up-close encounter with jazz, brim-full of anecdote and personal reminiscence, by an internationally known broadcaster and writer.

Way Down in Louisiana

Author : Todd Mouton
Publisher : University of Louisiana
ISBN 13 : 9781935754732
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (547 download)

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Download or read book Way Down in Louisiana written by Todd Mouton and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Clifton Chenier's amazing life and career as the centerpiece, this collection of profiles gathered across two decades unites some of the world's most innovative creative forces.

Paris Blues

Author : Andy Fry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022613895X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Paris Blues written by Andy Fry and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jazz Age. The phrase conjures images of Louis Armstrong holding court at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, Duke Ellington dazzling crowds at the Cotton Club in Harlem, and star singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. But the Jazz Age was every bit as much of a Paris phenomenon as it was a Chicago and New York scene. In Paris Blues, Andy Fry provides an alternative history of African American music and musicians in France, one that looks beyond familiar personalities and well-rehearsed stories. He pinpoints key issues of race and nation in France’s complicated jazz history from the 1920s through the 1950s. While he deals with many of the traditional icons—such as Josephine Baker, Django Reinhardt, and Sidney Bechet, among others—what he asks is how they came to be so iconic, and what their stories hide as well as what they preserve. Fry focuses throughout on early jazz and swing but includes its re-creation—reinvention—in the 1950s. Along the way, he pays tribute to forgotten traditions such as black musical theater, white show bands, and French wartime swing. Paris Blues provides a nuanced account of the French reception of African Americans and their music and contributes greatly to a growing literature on jazz, race, and nation in France.

Louisiana Creole & Cajun Cultures in Perspective

Author : Kathleen Tracy
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
ISBN 13 : 1545751641
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Creole & Cajun Cultures in Perspective written by Kathleen Tracy and published by Mitchell Lane. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cajun Cultures in Perspective Louisianas colorful past has shaped the states culturally diverse present. Its territory has had numerous claimants. The first was explorer Hernando de Soto on behalf of Spain in 1541, followed by Robert de la Salle of France and even the short-lived Republic of West Florida before it became the 18th state to join the Union in 1812. At the start of the Civil War, Louisiana became an independent republic for two weeks after seceding from the Union before joining the Confederacy.

The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender

Author : James Reddan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000591514
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender written by James Reddan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender identifies, defines, and interrogates the construct of gender in all forms of jazz, jazz culture, and education, shaping and transforming the conversation in response to changing cultural and societal norms across the globe. Such interrogation requires consideration of gender from multiple viewpoints, from scholars and artists at various points in their careers. This edited collection of 38 essays gathers the diverse perspectives of contributors from four continents, exploring the nuanced (and at times controversial) construct of gender as it relates to jazz music, in the past and present, in four parts: Historical Perspectives Identity and Culture Society and Education Policy and Advocacy Acknowledging the art form’s troubled relationship with gender, contributors seek to define the construct to include all possible definitions—not only female and male—without binary limitations, contextualizing gender and jazz in both place and time. As gender identity becomes an increasingly important consideration in both education and scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender provides a broad and inclusive resource of research for the academic community, addressing an urgent need to reconcile the construct of gender in jazz in all its forms.

Mister Jelly Roll

Author : Alan Lomax
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520225305
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Mister Jelly Roll written by Alan Lomax and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-12-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton, one of the world's most influential composers of jazz.

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857125958
Total Pages : 4183 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Popular Music written by Colin Larkin and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 4183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.

Negotiating Difference in French Louisiana Music

Author : Sara Le Menestrel
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 162674372X
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating Difference in French Louisiana Music written by Sara Le Menestrel and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara Le Menestrel explores the role of music in constructing, asserting, erasing, and negotiating differences based on the notions of race, ethnicity, class, and region. She discusses established notions and brings to light social stereotypes and hierarchies at work in the evolving French Louisiana music field. She also draws attention to the interactions between oppositions such as black and white, urban and rural, differentiation and creolization, and local and global. Le Menestrel emphasizes the importance of desegregating the understanding of French Louisiana music and situating it beyond ethnic or racial identifications, amplifying instead the importance of regional identity. Musical genealogy and categories currently in use rely on a racial construct that frames African and European lineage as an essential difference. Yet as the author samples music in the field and discovers ways music is actually practiced, she reveals how the insistence on origins continually interacts with an emphasis on cultural mixing and creative agency. This book finds French Louisiana musicians navigating between multiple identifications, musical styles, and legacies while market forces, outsiders' interest, and geographical mobility also contribute to shape musicians' career strategies and artistic choices. The book also demonstrates the decisive role of non-natives' enthusiasm and mobility in the validation, evolution, and reconfiguration of French Louisiana music. Finally, the distinctiveness of South Louisiana from the rest of the country appears to be both nurtured and endured by locals, revealing how political domination and regionalism intertwine.

Jazz on the Road

Author : Christopher Wilkinson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520229835
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Jazz on the Road written by Christopher Wilkinson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-10-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to providing a vivid account of life on the road and imparting new insight into the daily existence of working musicians, this book illustrates how the fundamental issue of race influenced Albert's life, as well as the music of the era."

Jazz Journeys

Author : Christa Bruckner-Haring
Publisher : Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
ISBN 13 : 3990942603
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Jazz Journeys written by Christa Bruckner-Haring and published by Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz is a music of journeys, migration, and global mobility – from the legacies of the transatlantic slave trade to global travels for escape, exchange, or putting down roots. Having migrated via changing modes of transportation and media communication, the sounds, musicians, and theories of jazz have led to today's diasporic jazz world of global and local encounters. This book features articles that deal with jazz in various geographic areas such as Japan or Israel, orchestras travelling to Egypt or invited to the USA, and so-called expatriate jazz musicians taking up residence in Europe. By sharing their research about jazz on TV, on records, and at festivals, the authors from different disciplines demonstrate how jazz studies today engage with movement in the music's past to question and shape its future. This collection of writings has its origins in the VI Rhythm Changes Conference "Jazz Journeys," which took place in Graz (Austria) and where the International Society for Jazz Research celebrated its 50th anniversary.