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"""South End Shout: Boston's Forgotten Music Scene in the Jazz Age is a truly rare example of a well-researched work of first-rate scholarship that is also a great read. Roger R. House, on the faculty of Boston's Emerson College, pursues this material with the insider's fervor of a thorough musical detective, and he is at the same time an engaging storyteller. This book chronicles a story long forgotten or perhaps completely unknown to the great majority of current musicians and Bostonians, that of the rise of pre-jazz and jazz in Boston in the African-American neighborhoods around Boston's Frederick Douglass Square (now the Douglass Historic District).""--David Demsey ""Music & Musical Performance: An International Journal"" (11/14/2023 12:00:00 AM)"

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Roger House is associate professor of American studies at Emerson College, Boston, and author of Blue Smoke: The Recorded Journey of Big Bill Broonzy (Louisiana State University Press 2010). His commentary articles on African American politics and cultural history have appeared in TheHill and The Daily Beast, among others. He has produced historical programs for National Public Radio and was a staff writer for The Providence Journal. House received a bachelor’s degree in history from Columbia University and a masters’ and doctorate degrees in American and New England studies from Boston University. To learn more about his research on Boston during the jazz age see his website, www.southendshout.com.

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