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Jazz on the river
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Title
Jazz on the river / William Howland Kenney.
ISBN
0226437337 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.
Physical Description
x, 229 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 16, 2005
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-211) and index.
Contents
Masters of the river : Streckfus Steamers, Inc. and the "swan complex"
Fate marable, musical professionalism, and the great migration
Groovin' on the river : Louis Armstrong and riverboat culture
From Beale Street to Market Street : music and movement through Memphis and St. Louis
"Blue river" : Bix Beiderbecke and Jess Stacy on the Mississippi
Steamin' to the end of the line : jazz on, along, and beyond the Ohio River
Epilogue: the decline and fall of excursion boat jazz in St. Louis.
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