Stomp and Swerve
Subtitle: American Music Gets Hot, 1843-1924
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: August 28, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781556524967
Subjects: Black studies; Composers & musicians; Jazz; United States; History and criticism; Black Musicians And Their Music; Music/Songbooks; Popular music; Music; USA; Genres & Styles - Jazz; Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal; History & Criticism - General; Music / Jazz; Ethnomusicology; African Americans
First sentence: In late January 1843, Daniel Decatur Emmett hosted an impromptu jam session in his room in Mrs. Brooke's boarding house at 37 Catherine Street, in New York's impressively unsavory Fourth Ward.