Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans by Charles Hersch

Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans

Charles Hersch

256 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history music informative slow-paced
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Subversive Sounds probes New Orleans’s history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art form—jazz. Drawing on oral histories, police reports, newspaper accounts, and...

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