Title: Jazz on the river /
Authors: Kenney, William Howland.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Jazz History and criticism; Rivers United States Songs and music History and criticism.
Contents: Playing changes : music, movement, and the performance of power on America's River Nile" -- Masters of the river : Streckfus Steamers, Inc. and the "swan complex" -- Fate marable, musical professionalism, and the great migration -- Groovin' on the river : Louis Armstrong and riverboat culture -- From Beale Street to Market Street: music and movement through Memphis and St. Louis -- "Blue river" : Bix Beiderbecke and Jess Stacy on the Mississippi -- Steamin' to the end of the line : jazz on, along, and beyond the Ohio River -- Epilogue: the decline and fall of excursion boat jazz in St. Louis.