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Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings. By Brian Harker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. - New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History. By Bruce Boyd Raeburn. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. - Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band. By Lawrence Gushee. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. - Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans. By Charles Hersch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. - That's Got ’Em!: The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman. By Mark Berresford. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2014
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1 See for example, Gabbard, Krin, ed., Jazz among the Discourses (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995)Google Scholar; Gabbard, , Representing Jazz (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995)Google Scholar; O’Meally, Robert G., Edwards, Brent Hayes, and Griffin, Farah Jasmine, ed., Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Tucker, Sherry, “Deconstructing the Jazz Tradition: The Subjectless Subject of New Jazz Studies,” The Source: Challenging Jazz Criticism 2 (2005): 31–46Google Scholar.
2 DeVeaux, Scott, “Constructing the Jazz Tradition: Jazz Historiography,” Black American Literature Forum 25/3 (Autumn 1991): 525–60CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
3 P. G. Lowery (1870–1942) was probably the most prominent African American wind band director, and led sideshow bands for many years for the major American circuses. See Watkins, Clifford E, Showman: The Life and Music of Perry George Lowery (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003)Google Scholar.
4 For a selection of Sweatman's later recordings, see Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band: Jazzin’ Straight Thru’ Paradise (Archeophone CD 6004, 2004).
5 Gene H. Anderson also gives a highly detailed analysis of all of Armstrong's Hot Five recordings in his The Original Hot Five Recordings of Louis Armstrong (New York: Pendragon Press, 2007). Harker's work focuses on fewer pieces but provides much more detailed historical context.