Beale Street Dynasty

Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis

Preston Lauterbach (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2015
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-08257-9 (ISBN)

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The dramatic rise and fall of Beale Street, the legendary Memphis thoroughfare that shook American culture.

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.

Preston Lauterbach is the author of Bluff City, Beale Street Dynasty, The Chitlin’ Circuit, a Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe book of the year, and co-author of Brother Johnson: Growing Up with Robert Johnson. He is a former visiting scholar at Rhodes College and a Virginia Humanities Fellow. He lives in Virginia.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.5.2015
Zusatzinfo	8 pages of illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 244 mm
Gewicht	673 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-393-08257-1 / 0393082571
ISBN-13	978-0-393-08257-9 / 9780393082579
Zustand	Neuware