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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