Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Humble Origins
Chapter 2: A Rising Talent
Chapter 3: Hot Music in a Strange Time
Chapter 4: An Independent Musician
Chapter 5: Fully Free African American
Chapter 6: Looking to a New Future
Chapter 7: International Icon
Chapter 8: The Soundtrack of the American Experience
David Stricklin is professor of history and head of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. With Bill C. Malone, he has also written Southern Music/American Music. He lives in Little Rock, AK.
In Stricklin's biography, Louis Armstrong: The Soundtrack on the
American Experience, he gives us a very compelling revisit to the
total majesty of Louis Armstrong. . . . His book re-illuminates the
greatness that he consistently displayed on trumpet and vocals but
also puts the spotlight on Louis's impact on society and culture at
large from the vantage point of a pioneering African-American
artist. His stances on mistreatment and injustices give us the full
picture of Mr. Armstrong the human being and how we are deeply in
his debt for showing us the way musically, socially, spiritually,
and humanly! This book is a must have for all to remind us the toll
we pay to Armstrong every time we pick up an instrument or enjoy
freedoms that he, along with other ancestors, felt were entitled to
his race, the human race!
*James Carter*
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