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Coming Through Slaughter

Coming Through Slaughter
Library Shelf Location 35.ONDA
Publication Date 1976
Description

This book joins the BALTIC Library collection because it is related to the forthcoming John Akomfrah exhibition in 2019.

Based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Coming Through Slaughter is an extraordinary recreation of a remarkable musical life and a tragic conclusion. Through a collage of memoirs, interviews, imaginary conversations and monologues, Ondaatje builds a picture of a man who would work by day at a barber shop and by night unleash his talent to wild audiences who had never experienced such playing. But Buddy was also playing the field with two women, and inside his head was a ticking time-bomb which he was unable to stop.

ISBN 0747572623
Quantity 1
Pages 164
Author Michael Ondaatje
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing, London
Category Non-art books relating to BALTIC exhibitions
Keyword Jazz
Language English

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