The real ambassadors : Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong challenge segregation /
"Keith Hatschek tells the story of three determined artists: Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and Iola Brubeck and the stand they took against segregation by writing and performing a jazz musical titled The Real Ambassadors. First conceived by the Brubecks in 1956, the musical's journey to t...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2022.
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Collection: | American made music series.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Meet the Brubecks
- Words and music
- Becoming jazz ambassadors
- Finding a producer
- Joe Glaser
- Standing up to segregation
- Securing Satchmo
- Gatheriing momentum
- A promising proposal : "The real ambassadors" in London
- Recording "The real ambassadors"
- The most expensive demo ever made
- Messengers of change
- The road to Monterey
- A night to remember
- Reception and reactions
- Rediscovering "The real ambassadors."