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Statesman of the piano : jazz, race, and history in the life of Lou Hooper / edited by Sean Mills, Eric Fillion, and D�esir�ee Rochat.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Carleton library series ; 266.Publisher: Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]Copyright date: �2023Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 262 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780228019169
  • 0228019168
  • 022801915X
  • 9780228019152
Other title:
  • Jazz, race, and history in the life of Lou Hooper
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Statesman of the piano.DDC classification:
  • 786.2165092 23
LOC classification:
  • ML417.H786 S79 2023
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Statesman Of The Piano-- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Lou Hooper's "Rediscovery" -- Part One Co-Editors' Note -- 1 That Happy Road -- 2 Documents -- A "Over the Sea to My Soldier" (1918) -- B Constitution of the Hooper Southern Singers of Canada (1935) -- C Letter to the Free Lance (1935) -- D First Anniversary Meeting of the Hooper Southern Singers of Canada (1936) -- E The Canadians Entertain (1941) -- F "The RCA Band" (1942) -- G "Montreal, Our Town" (1966) -- H Music through the Years (1973)
I Concert Programs (1907-1976) -- Part Two Co-Editors' Note -- 3 Reading Lou Hooper's Autobiography as an Ecobiography -- 4 Brave Sergeant Hooper and His Bandoliers -- 5 To Be "Un/silenced": The Interplay of Archives, Blackness, and Canadian History in That Happy Road -- 6 Black Community Archives in Practice -- 7 The Path of Resiliency -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: "Ontario-born jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894-1977) began his professional career in Detroit, accompanying blues singers such as Ma Rainey at the legendary Koppin Theatre. In 1921 he moved to Harlem, performing alongside Paul Robeson and recording extensively in and around Tin Pan Alley, before moving to Montreal in the 1930s. Prolific and influential, Hooper was an early teacher of Oscar Peterson and deeply involved in the jazz community in Montreal. When the Second World War broke out he joined the Canadian Armed Forces and entertained the troops in Europe. Near the end of his life Hooper came to prominence for his exceptional career and place in the history of jazz, inspiring an autobiography that was never published. Statesman of the Piano makes this document widely available for the first time and includes photographs, concert programs, lyrics, and other documents to reconstruct his life and times. Historians, archivists, musicians, and cultural critics provide annotations and commentary, examining some of the themes that emerge from Hooper's writing and music. Statesman of the Piano sparks new conversations about Hooper's legacy while shedding light on the cross-border travels and wartime experiences of Black musicians, the politics of archiving and curating, and the connections between race and music in the twentieth century."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes Lou Hooper's autobiography, titled That happy road.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Statesman Of The Piano-- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Lou Hooper's "Rediscovery" -- Part One Co-Editors' Note -- 1 That Happy Road -- 2 Documents -- A "Over the Sea to My Soldier" (1918) -- B Constitution of the Hooper Southern Singers of Canada (1935) -- C Letter to the Free Lance (1935) -- D First Anniversary Meeting of the Hooper Southern Singers of Canada (1936) -- E The Canadians Entertain (1941) -- F "The RCA Band" (1942) -- G "Montreal, Our Town" (1966) -- H Music through the Years (1973)

I Concert Programs (1907-1976) -- Part Two Co-Editors' Note -- 3 Reading Lou Hooper's Autobiography as an Ecobiography -- 4 Brave Sergeant Hooper and His Bandoliers -- 5 To Be "Un/silenced": The Interplay of Archives, Blackness, and Canadian History in That Happy Road -- 6 Black Community Archives in Practice -- 7 The Path of Resiliency -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

"Ontario-born jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894-1977) began his professional career in Detroit, accompanying blues singers such as Ma Rainey at the legendary Koppin Theatre. In 1921 he moved to Harlem, performing alongside Paul Robeson and recording extensively in and around Tin Pan Alley, before moving to Montreal in the 1930s. Prolific and influential, Hooper was an early teacher of Oscar Peterson and deeply involved in the jazz community in Montreal. When the Second World War broke out he joined the Canadian Armed Forces and entertained the troops in Europe. Near the end of his life Hooper came to prominence for his exceptional career and place in the history of jazz, inspiring an autobiography that was never published. Statesman of the Piano makes this document widely available for the first time and includes photographs, concert programs, lyrics, and other documents to reconstruct his life and times. Historians, archivists, musicians, and cultural critics provide annotations and commentary, examining some of the themes that emerge from Hooper's writing and music. Statesman of the Piano sparks new conversations about Hooper's legacy while shedding light on the cross-border travels and wartime experiences of Black musicians, the politics of archiving and curating, and the connections between race and music in the twentieth century."-- Provided by publisher.

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