Come in and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0226080714
ISBN13:9780226080710
Release Date:August 2008
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:328 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.0"
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