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Lonesome roads and streets of dreams : place, mobility, and race in jazz of the 1930s and '40s
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Lonesome roads and streets of dreams : place, mobility, and race in jazz of the 1930s and '40s / Andrew S. Berish.
ISBN
9780226044941 (cloth : alkaline paper)
0226044947 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226044958 (paperback : alkaline paper)
0226044955 (paperback : alkaline paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Physical Description
x, 313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 24, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
I dream of her and Avalon: Jan Garber, sweet jazz, and race at the Casino Ballroom
From the "make-believe ballroom" to the Meadowbrook Inn: Charlie Barnet and the promise of the road
A locomotive laboratory of place: Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
Travels with Charlie Christian: between region and nation
Conclusion: air spaces.
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