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Louis Armstrong : an American Genius.
Louis Armstrong. "Satchmo." To millions of fans, he was just a great entertainer. But to jazz aficionados, he was one of the most important musicians of our times--not only a key figure in the history of jazz but a formative influence on all of 20th-century popular music. Set against the b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1985.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Louis Armstrong. "Satchmo." To millions of fans, he was just a great entertainer. But to jazz aficionados, he was one of the most important musicians of our times--not only a key figure in the history of jazz but a formative influence on all of 20th-century popular music. Set against the backdrop of New Orleans, Chicago, and New York during the "jazz age", Collier re-creates the saga of an old-fashioned black man making it in a white world. He chronicles Armstrong's rise as a musician, his scrapes with the law, his relationships with four wives, and his frequent feuds with fellow musicians Ear |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (410 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes discographies and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198020486 0198020481 160129591X 9781601295910 9780195365078 0195365070 1280439319 9781280439315 1423736532 9781423736530 |