SONG FOR MY FATHERS(ISBN=) 英文原版

Song for My Fathers is the story of a young white boy driven by
a consuming passion to learn the music and ways of a group of aging
black jazzmen in the twilight years of the segregation era.
Contemporaries of Louis Armstrong, most of them had played in local
obscurity until Preservation Hall launched a nationwide revival of
interest in traditional jazz. They called themselves “the mens.”
And they welcomed the young apprentice into their ranks.
The boy was introduced into this remarkable fellowship by his
father, an eccentric Southern liberal and failed novelist whose
powerful articles on race had made him one of the most effective
polemicists of the early Civil Rights movement. Nurtured on his
father’s belief in racial equality, the aspiring clarinetist
embraced the old musicians with a boundless love and admiration.
The narrative unfolds against the vivid backdrop of New Orleans in
the 1950s and ‘60s. But that magical place is more than decor; it
is perhaps the central player, for this story could not have taken
place in any other city in the world.

Tom Sancton graduated from Harvard in 1971 and attended Oxford
as a Rhodes scholar. He is a former senior editor for Time and a
contributor to such publications as Vanity Fair, Fortune, Newsweek,
and the Wall Street Journal. He coauthored the international best
seller Death of a Princess: The Investigation and authored the
novel The Armageddon Project. A jazz performer in his own right,
Sancton has toured extensively in Europe and has recorded more than
a dozen albums, appearing alongside Woody Allen in the feature film
Wild Man Blues. In 2007, Sancton was named Andrew W. Mellon
Professor in the Humanities at Tulane University, where he
continues to teach advanced courses in creative writing.