Beale Street Dynasty : Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis Hardback
by Preston Lauterbach
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:368 pages, 8 pages of illustrations
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:12/05/2015
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- ISBN:9780393082579
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:368 pages, 8 pages of illustrations
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:12/05/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780393082579