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New Orleans Jazz: A Revised History
New Orleans Jazz A Revised History
Author: R. Collins
The distance between popular perception and the empiracal truth is often vast.  Myth buries fact and leaves the honest exposition of history to the most dedicated researchers.  Detailing a rich and now largely forgotten history, New Orleans Jazz:  A Revised History:  The Development of American Music from the Origin to th...  more » by R. Collins, sets out to overturn our narrow perceptions with a researched, reasoned, and eminently readable journey back to the very founding of the city in 1718.  A journey in which we see the early flourishing of French court music under the first French colonial governors leading to the development of Creole culture and its assumption of the musician's craft, the introduction of the "Spanish tinge" under Spanish rule in 1763, the tribulations of the Creoles under the melting-pot ferment that caused New Orleans to produce not only the first distinctly American music but some of America's finiest musicians as well.

Illustrated with over fifty maps, documents, and photos, New Orleans Jazz:  A Revised Hisory celebrates the city and its people in an honest, respectful voice and with a clarity of vision that opens a window into this vital chapter of our national cultural history.
ISBN-13: 9780533114276
ISBN-10: 0533114276
Publication Date: 5/1996
Pages: 293
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Publisher: Vantage Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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