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Come in and Hear the Truth

Jazz and Race on 52nd Street

Come in and Hear the Truth( )
Author: Burke, Patrick
ISBN:978-0-226-08071-0
Publication Date:Aug 2008
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $49.00
Book Description:

Between the mid-1930s and the late '40s, the center of the jazz world was a two-block stretch of 52nd Street in Manhattan. Dozens of crowded basement clubs between Fifth and Seventh avenues played host to legends such as Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker, as well as to innumerable professional musicians whose names aren't quite so well known. Together, these musicians and their audiences defied the traditional border between serious art and commercial...
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Book Details
Pages:328
Detailed Subjects: Music / Genres & Styles / Jazz
History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (Dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa)
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):0.64 x 0.881 x 0.098 Inches
Book Weight:1.368 Pounds



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