Seattle is a music town with rich, deep roots that have influenced
the culture and identity of its civic life for decades. In a society
that appreciates music but is ambivalent toward the profession of making
it, the importance and contribution of Seattle's musicians have been
routinely overlooked in historical accounts of the city. Kurt Armbruster
fills that gap in this far-reaching and entertaining panorama of
Seattle music from the 1890s to the 1960s, "before Seattle rocked."
For
this once-remote city, music forged links as real as those created by
railroads and steamships. Classical music embodied the middle-class
aspirations for gentility and cosmopolitan stature; jazz and blues gave
Seattle's small African American community a vehicle for affirmation and
economic advancement; ethnic music helped immigrants adjust to a new
home; songs and drumming kept the memories of the Duwamish alive in a
changing world. Before Seattle Rocked is enlivened by personal anecdotes
and memories from many of Seattle's most beloved musicians and is
enriched by historic photos of the changing music scene.
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