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Product Description: In New Orleans, music screams. It honks. It blats. It wails. It purrs. It messes with time. It messes with pitch. It messes with your feet. It messes with your head. One musician leads to another; traditions overlap, intertwine, nourish each other; and everyone seems to know everyone else...read more
By Gary Samson (photographer)

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9781496803627 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, October 23, 2015, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In New Orleans, music screams.

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Product Description: Roll With It is a firsthand account of the precarious lives of brass band musicians in New Orleans. These young men are celebrated as cultural icons for upholding the proud traditions of the jazz funeral and the second line parade, yet they remain subject to the perils of poverty, racial marginalization, and urban violence that characterize life for many black Americans...read more

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9780822355526 | Duke Univ Pr, October 30, 2013, cover price $84.95 | About this edition: Roll With It is a firsthand account of the precarious lives of brass band musicians in New Orleans.

Paperback:

9780822355670 | Duke Univ Pr, October 30, 2013, cover price $23.95

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A tantalizing study of a city, its music, and a way of life journeys inside the intense and violent world of New Orleans rap music to bring to life the evolution of the popular form of music, the people who make it, and the hidden culture that surrounds it. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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9781400042456 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 8, 2005, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A tantalizing study of a city, its music, and a way of life journeys inside the intense and violent world of New Orleans rap music to bring to life the evolution of the popular form of music, the people who make it, and the hidden culture that surrounds it.

Paperback:

9781400077069 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 10, 2007), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A tantalizing study of a city, its music, and a way of life journeys inside the intense and violent world of New Orleans rap music to bring to life the evolution of the popular form of music, the people who make it, and the hidden culture that surrounds it.
9780436205354 | Vintage Uk, November 17, 2005, cover price $21.40 | About this edition: What lunacy would cause a 55-year-old white male, neither lean nor hungry, to embroil himself in the world of New Orleans rap as an active participant - ideas man, talent-spotter, lyricist, and would-be producer?

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Explores the lifestyles and attitudes of the black musicians community in New Orleans. Bibliogs

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9780195018325 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 1975, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Explores the lifestyles and attitudes of the black musicians community in New Orleans.

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