Bamboula!
the life and times of Louis Moreau Gottschalk
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Author
Publication
1995 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
141,000 words, Guess
Page Count
564 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1403491M
- ISBN-100195072375
- OCLC Control Number28424164
- OCLC Control Numberbamboulalifetime0000star
- Library of Congress Control Number93011539
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- Goodreads1588823
- LibraryThing298050
Classifications
- DDC780/.92
- LCCML410.G68 S7 1995
Description
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.
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