Dangerous Rhythms
Subtitle: Jazz and the Underworld
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2022
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9780063031425
Copyright date: 2022
Subjects: Music, history and criticism
First sentence: At the age of fourteen, Louis Armstrong of New Orleans was a potent combination of streetwise youth and naïve back-alley urchin with a song in his heart.
Table of contents: title: Intro
pagenum: 1; label: Part One
title: Major Chord; label: 1
title: Shadow of the Demimonde
pagenum: 13; label: 2
title: Sicilian Message
pagenum: 40; label: 3
title: Kansas City Stomp
pagenum: 62; label: 4
title: Disfiguration
pagenum: 89; label: 5
title: Birth of the Hipster
pagenum: 113; label: 6
title: Friends in Dark Places
pagenum: 137; label: 7
title: Down on the Plantation
pagenum: 163; label: Part Two
title: Flatted Fifth; label: 8
title: The Crooner
pagenum: 189; label: 9
title: Swing Street
pagenum: 219; label: 10
title: “Jazz Provides Background for Death”
pagenum: 245; label: 11
title: The Ghost of Chano Pozo
pagenum: 271; label: 12
title: Fear and Loathing at the Copacabana
pagenum: 297; label: 13
title: The Muck and the Mud
pagenum: 327; label: 14
title: Twilight of the Underworld
pagenum: 350; title: Coda
pagenum: 372; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 377; title: Notes
pagenum: 381; title: Sources
pagenum: 409; title: Index
pagenum: 421