Music is my life : Louis Armstrong, autobiography, and American jazz

Daniel Stein

"Music is my life and I love to play": Louis Armstrong's jazz autobiographics -- "I have always been a great observer" : New Orleans musicking -- " I done forgot the words": versioning autobiography -- "Diddat come outa mee?" writing scat and typing swing -- "A happy go lucky sort of type of fellow": the productive ambiguities of minstrel sounding -- "He didn't need black face to be funny": the double resonance of postcolonial performance -- "My mission is music": Armstrong's cultural politics -- "What do you know about that?": final thoughts on 'Laughin' Louie. - Analyse van de autobiografische notities van de Amerikaanse jazztrompettist (1901-1971)