Playing for the Benefit of the Band: New Orleans Music Culture

Lee Friedlander
9780300204407 / 030020440X
Playing for the Benefit of the Band

Playing for the Benefit of the Band: New Orleans Music Culture

Lee Friedlander
9780300204407 / 030020440X
Publisher Yale University Press 2014
Edition Hardcover
Genres Documentary photography , Portrait photography
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Publisher's description

Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) first visited the birthplace of jazz in 1957, and immediately set about photographing the aging pioneers of the art form. His love of the music and the people of New Orleans drew him back to the city, and the relationships he formed over time gave him intimate access to a scene that forged one of America’s most original artistic traditions. A revised and expanded edition of his 1992 monograph The Jazz People of New Orleans, Playing for the Benefit of the Band features over 200 photographs taken by Friedlander between 1957 and 1982, many of which are published here for the first time. Storied figures such as Duke Ellington and Mahalia Jackson have been captured by Friedlander’s disarming lens, and Sweet Emma Barrett, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Johnny St. Cyr, and other luminaries are seen in their homes and the back rooms in which they gathered to play. Also included are photographs of the city’s second-line parades, whose jubilant dancing has long been a defining aspect of New Orleans jazz culture.

Specifications

Book title Playing for the Benefit of the Band
Subtitle New Orleans Music Culture
Photographer Lee Friedlander
ISBN 10 030020440X / 0-300-20440-X       
ISBN 13 9780300204407 / 978-0-300-20440-7
Publisher Yale University Press
Publish year 2014
Genre Documentary photography Portrait photography
Book format Hardcover

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