Elijah Wald Hachette Books Jelly Roll Blues (Hardback)
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Further Details Title: Jelly Roll Blues Condition: New Format: Hardback Release Date: 04/11/2024 Subtitle: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories ISBN-10: 0306831406 EAN: 9780306831409 ISBN: 9780306831409 Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc Description: Bestselling music historian Elijah Wald follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazz In Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories , Elijah Wald takes readers on a journey into the hidden and censored world of early blues and jazz, guided by the legendary New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton. Morton became nationally famous as a composer and bandleader in the 1920s, but got his start twenty years earlier, entertaining customers in the city's famous bordellos and singing rough blues in Gulf Coast honky-tonks. He recorded an oral history of that time in 1938, but the most distinctive songs were hidden away for over fifty years, because the language and themes were as wild and raunchy as anything in gangsta rap. Those songs inspired Wald to explore how much other history had been locked away and censored, and this book is the result of that quest. Full of previously unpublished lyrics and stories, it paints a new and surprising picture of the dawn of American popular music, when jazz and blues were still the private, after-hours music of the Black "sporting world." It gives new insight into familiar figures like Buddy Bolden and Louis Armstrong, and introduces forgotten characters like Ready Money, the New Orleans sex worker and pickpocket who ended up owning one of the largest Black hotels on the West Coast. Revelatory and fascinating, these songs and stories provide an alternate view of Black culture at the turn of the twentieth century, when a new generation was shaping lives their parents could not have imagined and art that transformed popular culture around the world-the birth of a joyous, angry, desperate, loving, and ferociously funny tradition that resurfaced in hip-hop and continues to inspire young artists in a new millennium. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Author: Elijah Wald, Hachette Books Genre: Music Dance & Theatre Topic: Biography Item Width: 32mm Item Weight: 560g Type: Jazz Release Year: 2024 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
