Roll With It

Matt Sakakeeny

Published by Duke University Press 2013

Roll With It

Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans

Matt Sakakeeny

Illustrator: Willie Birch

In the series Refiguring American Music

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822377207

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About this book

Roll With It is a firsthand account of the contradictory lives of New Orleans brass-band musicians. They are celebrated as cultural icons within the music scene; outside it, they are treated as faceless black males—subject to poverty, racial marginalization, and urban violence.

Author information

Matt Sakakeeny is an ethnomusicologist and journalist, New Orleans resident and musician. An Assistant Professor of Music at Tulane University, he initially moved to New Orleans to work as a co-producer of the public radio program American Routes. Sakakeeny has written for publications including The Oxford American, Mojo, and Wax Poetics. He plays guitar in the band Los Po-Boy-Citos.

Willie Birch is an international artist who lives in New Orleans, where he was born in 1942. Birch received his BA from Southern University New Orleans in 1969 and his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 1973. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the State of Louisiana Governor's award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His works are part of the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Reviews

-- Geraldine Wyckoff Offbeat

-- Florence Wetzel All About Jazz

-- Kirkus Reviews

-- Alison Fensterstock Times-Picayune

-- Will Coviello Gambit

-- Samuel Nelson Where Y'at?

-- Jason Berry New Orleans Magazine

-- Scott Barretta Clarion-Ledger

-- Florence Wetzel All About Jazz

-- John Paul Meyers Jazz Perspectives

-- Ron Emoff American Anthropologist

-- Gregory Booth Journal of Popular Music Studies

-- David Kammerer Ethnomusicology

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of artwork Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Prologue Crossing the Threshold Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Forward Motion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Onward and Upward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Chapter 2. Constraints Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Chapter 3. Progressions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Chapter 4. Voices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Conclusion Engagements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Afterword Image and Music in the Art of Willie Birch Willie Birch and Matt Sakakeeny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Appendix List of Interviews and Public Events Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Illustrations
- Other: 25 photographs

eBook

Published: October 30, 2013
ISBN: 9780822377207