| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Book Review

Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans. By Charles Hersch. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiv, 289 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-226-32867-6.)

Charles Hersch fills a historiographical gap by providing the first interpretive cultural study of early New Orleans jazz. This is surprising; the tropes, signifiers, discourses, and other indices of cultural conflict and change arising from the city's dangerous streets, shabby dance halls, multiracial brothels, lakeside bandstands, and parades and celebrations, circa 1880–1920, have long been ripe for theorizing. Earlier histories avoid such postmodern approaches, but they provide many suggestive illustrations of oppositional behavior, subversive textuality, and cultural hybridity among the Creoles of color, Sicilian and Irish immigrants, voodoo queens, pimps, roustabouts, and slumming white dance hall patrons who peopled the New Orleans scene.

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