Beale Street Dynasty : sex, song, and the struggle for the Soul of Memphis
Preston Lauterbach
Bok Engelsk 2015
| Utgitt | New York : Norton , cop. 2015
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| Omfang | 352 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | Har noteapparat og register. - Between Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, greed and race hatred-a street that inspired folk legends and reshaped American politics. Preston Lauterbach tells this story through the life of the South's first black millionaire, an ex-slave named Robert Church. With a compromised fortune gleaned from brothels and gambling houses, Church and his son bankrolled militant civil rights activism, furnished the venues where W.C. Handy invented the blues and built a powerful black political machine. Fighting to redeem themselves and their city, these vice kings clashed with the forces of Jim Crow to create a hotbed of black culture. Brilliantly researched, Beale Street Dynasty evokes a lost world of swaggering musicians, glamorous madams and ruthless politicians.
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| ISBN | 978-0393082579
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