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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Inthavong, Kim (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Inthavong, Kim (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Inthavong, Kim (illustrator).

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Inthavong, Kim (illustrator). …

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Inthavong, Kim (illustrator). …

Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books. Inthavong, Kim (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Pictorial boards have edge wear, minor scratches, rubbed corners/spine. No writing. Inthavong, Kim (illustrator). Book.

Hardback. Condition: New. Inthavong, Kim (illustrator).

Condition: New. Inthavong, Kim (illustrator).

Hardback. Condition: New. Inthavong, Kim (illustrator).

hardcover. Condition: New. Brand new. Inthavong, Kim (illustrator).

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Condition: New. Inthavong, Kim (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: New. A new understanding of the birth of jazz through a fine-grained social history of early African American musicians_x000D_/_x000D_/Winner of the 2025 Robert M. Stevenson Award, presented by the American Musicological Society (AMS)_x000D_/_x000D_/Winner of the Harry and Claire Brook Award, bestowed by the Harry Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation (The Graduate Center of The City University of New York)_x000D_/_x000D_/Finalist for the MAAH Stone Book Award, bestowed by the Museum of African American History (2025)_x000D_/_x000D_/Honorable mention for The Portia K. Maultsby Prize, granted by Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM)_x000D_/_x000D_/Brassroots Democracy recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed. Benjamin Barson presents a "music history from below," following the musicians as they built communes, performed at Civil Rights rallies, and participated in general strikes. Perhaps most importantly, Barson locates the first emancipatory revolution in the Americas-Haiti-as a nexus for cultural and political change in nineteenth-century Louisiana. In dialogue with the work of recent historians who have inverted traditional histories of Latin American and Caribbean independence by centering the influence of Haitian activists abroad, this work traces the impact of Haitian culture in New Orleans and its legacy in movements for liberation._x000D_/_x000D_/Brassroots Democracy demonstrates how Black musicians infused participatory music practice with innovative forms of grassroots democracy. Late nineteenth-century Black brass bands and activists rehearsed these participatory models through collective performance that embodied the democratic ethos of Black Reconstruction. Termed "Brassroots Democracy," this fusion of political and musical spheres revolutionized both. Brassroots Democracy illuminates the Black Atlantic struggles that informed music-as-world-making from the Haitian Revolution through Reconstruction to the jazz revolution. The work theorizes the roots of the New Orleans brass band tradition in the social relations grown in maroon ecologies across the Americas. Their fruits contributed to the socio-sonic commons of the music we call jazz today.…

Condition: very_good. This book is in Very Good condition. The cover and pages have minor shelf wear. Binding is tight and pages are intact.

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Condition: New. 2023. Hardcover. . . . . . Inthavong, Kim (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Wesleyan University Press hardcover in dust jacket, 2024- first edition/1st printing; unused and carefully stored; inscription on half-title page SIGNED by Ben Barson else defect free; (as New/Fine). We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble wrap the book and ship it in a New BOX- Not a plastic bag like the zombie sellers. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Condition: New. 2023. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Inthavong, Kim (illustrator).

Condition: New. Inthavong, Kim (illustrator).

Hardcover. 59p., pictorial boards, very good comic book. No dust jacket, as issued. Based on the true story of a group of indentured Chinese men who overthrew the slavetrader who had tricked them into servitude in the guano islands of Peru.

Paperback. Condition: New. A new understanding of the birth of jazz through a fine-grained social history of early African American musicians_x000D_/_x000D_/Winner of the 2025 Robert M. Stevenson Award, presented by the American Musicological Society (AMS)_x000D_/_x000D_/Winner of the Harry and Claire Brook Award, bestowed by the Harry Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation (The Graduate Center of The City University of New York)_x000D_/_x000D_/Finalist for the MAAH Stone Book Award, bestowed by the Museum of African American History (2025)_x000D_/_x000D_/Honorable mention for The Portia K. Maultsby Prize, granted by Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM)_x000D_/_x000D_/Brassroots Democracy recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed. Benjamin Barson presents a "music history from below," following the musicians as they built communes, performed at Civil Rights rallies, and participated in general strikes. Perhaps most importantly, Barson locates the first emancipatory revolution in the Americas-Haiti-as a nexus for cultural and political change in nineteenth-century Louisiana. In dialogue with the work of recent historians who have inverted traditional histories of Latin American and Caribbean independence by centering the influence of Haitian activists abroad, this work traces the impact of Haitian culture in New Orleans and its legacy in movements for liberation._x000D_/_x000D_/Brassroots Democracy demonstrates how Black musicians infused participatory music practice with innovative forms of grassroots democracy. Late nineteenth-century Black brass bands and activists rehearsed these participatory models through collective performance that embodied the democratic ethos of Black Reconstruction. Termed "Brassroots Democracy," this fusion of political and musical spheres revolutionized both. Brassroots Democracy illuminates the Black Atlantic struggles that informed music-as-world-making from the Haitian Revolution through Reconstruction to the jazz revolution. The work theorizes the roots of the New Orleans brass band tradition in the social relations grown in maroon ecologies across the Americas. Their fruits contributed to the socio-sonic commons of the music we call jazz today.…

Condition: New. Inthavong, Kim (illustrator).

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A new understanding of the birth of jazz through a fine-grained social history of early African American musicians/>/>Brassroots Democracy recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed. Benjamin Barson presents a "music history from below," following the musicians as they built communes, performed at Civil Rights rallies, and participated in general strikes. Perhaps most importantly, Barson locates the first emancipatory revolution in the AmericasHaitias a nexus for cultural and political change in nineteenth-century Louisiana. In dialogue with the work of recent historians who have inverted traditional histories of Latin American and Caribbean independence by centering the influence of Haitian activists abroad, this work traces the impact of Haitian culture in New Orleans and its legacy in movements for liberation./>/>Brassroots Democracy demonstrates how Black musicians infused participatory music practice with innovative forms of grassroots democracy. Late nineteenth-century Black brass bands and activists rehearsed these participatory models through collective performance that embodied the democratic ethos of Black Reconstruction. Termed 'Brassroots Democracy,' this fusion of political and musical spheres revolutionized both. Brassroots Democracy illuminates the Black Atlantic struggles that informed music-as-world-making from the Haitian Revolution through Reconstruction to the jazz revolution. The work theorizes the roots of the New Orleans brass band tradition in the social relations grown in maroon ecologies across the Americas. Their fruits contributed to the socio-sonic commons of the music we call jazz today. "The author delivers new understandings of jazz history through a fine-grained social history of African American musicians, from the Civil War until the onset of Jim Crow, placing New Orleans in a global context and exploring Black Atlantic critiques of slavery, racism, and capitalism"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardback. Condition: New. A new understanding of the birth of jazz through a fine-grained social history of early African American musicians//Brassroots Democracy recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed. Benjamin Barson presents a "music history from below," following the musicians as they built communes, performed at Civil Rights rallies, and participated in general strikes. Perhaps most importantly, Barson locates the first emancipatory revolution in the Americas-Haiti-as a nexus for cultural and political change in nineteenth-century Louisiana. In dialogue with the work of recent historians who have inverted traditional histories of Latin American and Caribbean independence by centering the influence of Haitian activists abroad, this work traces the impact of Haitian culture in New Orleans and its legacy in movements for liberation.//Brassroots Democracy demonstrates how Black musicians infused participatory music practice with innovative forms of grassroots democracy. Late nineteenth-century Black brass bands and activists rehearsed these participatory models through collective performance that embodied the democratic ethos of Black Reconstruction. Termed 'Brassroots Democracy,' this fusion of political and musical spheres revolutionized both. Brassroots Democracy illuminates the Black Atlantic struggles that informed music-as-world-making from the Haitian Revolution through Reconstruction to the jazz revolution. The work theorizes the roots of the New Orleans brass band tradition in the social relations grown in maroon ecologies across the Americas. Their fruits contributed to the socio-sonic commons of the music we call jazz today.…

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

paperback. Condition: New. Special order direct from the distributor.