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Bamboula! : the life and times of Louis Moreau Gottschalk
- Title
- Bamboula! : the life and times of Louis Moreau Gottschalk / S. Frederick Starr.
- Author
- Starr, S. Frederick.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | ML410.G68 S7 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 564 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- In Bamboula!, S. Frederick Starr presents an authoritatively researched, engagingly written biography of America's first authentic musical voice. Starr paints for us a striking portrait of Louis Moreau Gottschalk's childhood in 1830s New Orleans, a city madly devoted to music, where opera companies, music halls, fiddlers and banjo-pickers, church choirs, and Army bands all contributed to what Starr calls "the most stunning manifestation of Jacksonian democracy in the realm of culture to be found anywhere in America." We meet Gottschalk's French-speaking maternal grandmother and also his African-American nurse Sally, both of whom regaled him with the songs, legends, and lore of the Creole world, which would inform some of his finest music.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [539]-556) and index.
- ISBN
- 0195072375 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 93011539
- OCLC
- ocm28424164
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries