Music Is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz - Brossura

Stein, Daniel

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ISBN 10: 0472051806 ISBN 13: 9780472051809

Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2012

Riassunto

Music Is My Life is the first comprehensive analysis of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical writings (including his books, essays, and letters) and their relation to his musical and visual performances. Combining approaches from autobiography theory, literary criticism, intermedia studies, cultural history, and musicology, Daniel Stein reconstructs Armstrong's performances of his life story across various media and for different audiences, complicating the monolithic and hagiographic views of the musician.The book will appeal to academic readers with an interest in African American studies, jazz studies, musicology, and popular culture, as well as general readers interested in Armstrong's life and music, jazz, and twentieth-century entertainment. While not a biography, it provides a key to understanding Armstrong's oeuvre as well as his complicated place in American history and twentieth-century media culture.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Daniel Stein is Professor in North American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Siegen, Germany.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Michigan Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0472051806
• ISBN 13: 9780472051809
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 349