Backbeat
Subtitle: Earl Palmer's Story
Contributors: Wynton Marsalis (Foreword)
Publisher: Da Capo
Published: September 5, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780306809804
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Composers & Musicians - Rock; Cultural Heritage; People of Color; Biography & Autobiography-People of Color; Composers & Musicians - General; Biography; Palmer, Earl; Rock musicians; United States
First sentence: Most musical histories of New Orleans still ride heavily on the distinction between "uptown" and "downtown," the former the home of dark-skinned, blues-playing American blacks, the latter of French-speaking black Creoles and their politer music.