Summary
According to Hersch, these many distinctions disappeared only gradually with the advent of Jim Crow laws. [...] what was the nature of white influence?
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Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans
Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans. By Charles Hersch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. [x, 289 p. ISBN: 9780226328676. $35.00.] Bibliographic references, illustrations, discography, index.
In this book, Charles Hersch surveys the rise of jazz in New Orleans with special attention to race and class. As a political scientist, he brings a perspective and...See the full content of this document
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