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Music Is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz (Jazz Perspectives) by Daniel Stein is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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__Music Is My Life__ is the first comprehensive analysis of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical writings (including his books, essays, and letters) and their relation to his musical and visual performances. Combining approaches from autobiography theory, literary criticism, intermedia studies, cultural history, and musicology, Daniel Stein reconstructs Armstrong's performances of his life story across various media and for different audiences, complicating the monolithic and hagiographic views of the musician. The book will appeal to academic readers with an interest in African American studies, jazz studies, musicology, and popular culture, as well as general readers interested in Armstrong's life and music, jazz, and twentieth-century entertainment. While not a biography, it provides a key to understanding Armstrong's oeuvre as well as his complicated place in American history and twentieth-century media culture.

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Author

Daniel Stein

Publisher

The University of Michigan Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472051809

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Science, Social Science