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Come in and hear the truth : jazz and race on 52nd Street
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Come in and hear the truth : jazz and race on 52nd Street / Patrick Burke.
ISBN
9780226080710 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226080714 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-289) and index.
Contents
First for the musicians, then for the world : the birth of Swing Street
Let's have a jubilee : 52nd Street goes commercial
Here comes the man with the jive : Stuff Smith
A little law and order in my music : the John Kirby Sextet and Maxine Sullivan
Swingin' down that lane : 52nd Street at the height of the swing era
Making it into the big time : Count Basie, Joe Marsala, and "mixed" bands
This conglomeration of colors : bebop comes to Swing Street
Apples and oranges : 52nd Street and the jazz war.
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