[ePub] Art and Ventriloquism (Critical Voices in Art; Theory and Culture) by David Goldblatt at Arts-Photography

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The best book ever produced about Louis Armstrong by anyone other than the man himself.mdash;Terry Teachout; CommentaryIn the early twentieth century; New Orleans was a place of colliding identities and histories; and Louis Armstrong was a gifted young man of psychological nimbleness. A dark-skinned; impoverished child; he grew up under low expectations; Jim Crow legislation; and vigilante terrorism. Yet he also grew up at the center of African American vernacular traditions from the Deep South; learning the ecstatic music of the Sanctified Church; blues played by street musicians; and the plantation tradition of ragging a tune.Louis Armstrongs New Orleans interweaves a searching account of early twentieth-century New Orleans with a narrative of the first twenty-one years of Armstrongs life. Drawing on a stunning body of first-person accounts; this book tells the rags-to-riches tale of Armstrongs early life and the social and musical forces that shaped him. The city and the musician are both extraordinary; their relationship unique; and their impact on American culture incalculable.Some images in this ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues.