Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis (eBook)

Preston Lauterbach (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
384 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-24675-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.3.2015
• Zusatzinfo: 22 photographs; map
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: African American • Blues • Boss Crump • History • Jim Crow • music • Race relations • robert church • Tennessee • W.C. Handy
• ISBN-10: 0-393-24675-2 / 0393246752
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24675-9 / 9780393246759