Jazz on the river /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
[2005]
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of 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.