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Keeping the Beat on the Street : The New Orleans Brass Band Renaissance.

Burns, Mick.

Keeping the Beat on the Street : The New Orleans Brass Band Renaissance.

Burns, Mick.

9780807155820

Burns, Mick.

1st ed.

1 online resource (208 pages)

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- BAND CALL: Fairview Baptist Church Brass Band Hurricane Brass Band Chosen Few Brass Band -- Danny Barker and the Fairview Baptist Church Brass Band -- What Is The Parade For? -- Leroy Jones, Trumpet -- Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen, Bass Horn -- Gregg Stafford, Trumpet -- Joe Torregano, Saxophones and Clarinet -- Harry Sterling, Guitar -- Tad Jones, Jazz Writer and Hist -- BAND CALL: Dirty Dozen Brass Band -- A Note on the Tremé and Its Music -- Gregory "Blodie" Davis, Trumpet -- Roger Lewis, Saxophones -- Benny Jones, Drums -- "Uncle" Lionel Paul Batiste Sr., Bass Drum -- A Note on the Baby Dolls -- Jerry Brock, Historian, Broadcaster, and Filmmaker -- BAND CALL: Rebirth Brass Band -- The Rebirth Brass Band -- Philip Frazier III, Bass Horn -- Keith Frazier, Bass Drum -- Keith "Wolf" Anderson, Trombone and Bass Horn -- Kermit at Vaughan's, October 31, 2002 -- A Note on the Tambourine and Fan Club -- Jerome Smith, Community Leader -- BAND CALL: New Birth, Majestic, Algiers, All Star, Regal, Tremé, Doc Paulin, Pinstripe, New Wave, Mahogany -- Cayetano "Tanio" Hingle, Bass Drum -- Kenneth "Little Milton" Terry, Trumpet -- Edgar "Sarge" Smith, Bass Horn -- Donna Poniatowski-Sims, Venue Proprietor -- Ruddley Thibodeaux, Trumpet -- James "Little Twelve" Andrews, Trumpet -- Lajoie "Butch" Gomez, Saxophones -- "DJ" Davis Rogan, Radio Announcer -- A Note on Ernest "Doc" Paulin, Trumpet -- Oscar Washington, Snare Drum -- Brice Miller, Trumpet -- Norman Dixon, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Coordinator -- Epilogue: Second Line on Sunday -- Select Discography: Recommended Listening -- Notes -- Index.

Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Keeping the Beat on the Street celebrates the renewed passion and pageantry among black brass bands in New Orleans. Mick Burns introduces the people who play the music and shares their insights, showing why New Orleans is the place where jazz continues to grow. Brass bands waned during the civil rights era but revived around 1970 and then flourished in the 1980s when the music became cool with the younger generation. In the only book to cover this revival, Burns interviews members from a variety of bands, including the Fairview Baptist Church Brass Band, the Dirty Dozen, Tuba Fats' Chosen Few, and the Rebirth Brass Band. He captures their thoughts about the music, their careers, audiences, influences from rap and hip-hop, the resurgence of New Orleans social and pleasure clubs and second lines, traditional versus funk style, recording deals, and touring. For anyone who loves jazz and the city where it was born, Keeping the Beat on the Street is a book to savor. "We should be grateful to Mick Burns for undertaking the task of producing... the only book to cover the subject of what he rightly calls the brass band renaissance." -- New Orleans Music"A welcome look at the history of brass bands. These oral histories provide a valuable contribution to New Orleans musical history.... What shines through the musicians' words is love of craft, love of culture." -- New Orleans Times-Picayune "A seminal work about the Brass Bands of New Orleans." -- Louisiana Libraries.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Bands (Music) -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.

Jazz -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History and criticism.

Musicians -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.

New Orleans (La.) -- Social life and customs.

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