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Author : George Washington Lee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beale Street, where the Blues Began written by George Washington Lee and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beale Street U.S.A. written by and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beale Street USA written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Memphis Housing Authority
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beale Street USA written by Memphis Housing Authority and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Washington Lee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beale Street, where the Blues Began written by George Washington Lee and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Memphis Housing Authority
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Beale Street, U.S.A.: where the Blues Began written by Memphis Housing Authority and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beale Street USA written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Memphis Housing Authority
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Beale Street, U.S.A., where the Blues Began written by Memphis Housing Authority and published by . This book was released on 1964* with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Lomax
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780385312851
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Land where the Blues Began written by Alan Lomax and published by . This book was released on 1994-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, this mususical and cultural exploration of the rich, sorrow-laden birth of the blues is an intimate and respectful look at an integral part of African American culture--a master work that has been 60 years in the making. Photos.
Author : Dr. Beverly G. Bond
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439617538
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Beale Street written by Dr. Beverly G. Bond and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once celebrated as the Main Street of Negro America," Beale Street has a long and vibrant history. In the early 20th century, the 15-block neighborhood supported a collection of hotels, pool halls, saloons, banks, barber shops, pharmacies, dry goods stores, theaters, gambling dens, jewelers, fraternal clubs, churches, entertainment agencies, beauty salons, pawn shops, blues halls, and juke joints. Above the street-level storefronts were offices of African American business and professional men: dentists, doctors, undertakers, photographers, teachers, realtors, and insurance brokers. By mid-century, following the social strife and urban renewal projects of the 1960s and 1970s, little remained of the original neighborhood. Those buildings spared by the bulldozers were boarded up and falling down. In the nick of time, in the 1980s, the city realized the area's potential as a tourist attraction. New bars, restaurants, and entertainment venues opened along the remaining three-block strip, providing a mecca for those seeking to recapture the magic of Beale Street."
Author : James M. Salem
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252069697
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R&B to Rock 'n' Roll written by James M. Salem and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Elvis Presley was a white man who sang in a predominantly black style, Johnny Ace was a black man who sang in a predominantly white one. This title presents a treatment of this influential performer taking the reader to Beale Street in Memphis and to Houston's Fourth Ward, both vibrant black communities where the music never stopped.
Author : Preston Lauterbach
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393082571
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Beale Street Dynasty written by Preston Lauterbach and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vivid history of Beale Street—a lost world of swaggering musicians, glamorous madams, and ruthless politicians—and the battle for the soul of Memphis. Following the Civil War, Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, violence and passion. But out of this turmoil emerged a center of black progress, optimism, and cultural ferment. Preston Lauterbach tells this vivid, fascinating story through the multigenerational saga of a family whose ambition, race pride, and moral complexity indelibly shaped the city that would loom so large in American life. Robert Church, who would become “the South’s first black millionaire,” was a mulatto slave owned by his white father. Having survived a deadly race riot in 1866, Church constructed an empire of vice in the booming river town. He made a fortune with saloons, gambling, and—shockingly—white prostitution. But he also nurtured the militant journalism of Ida B. Wells and helped revolutionize American music through the work of composer W.C. Handy, the man who claimed to have invented the blues. In the face of Jim Crow, the Church fortune helped fashion the most powerful black political organization of the early twentieth century. Robert and his son, Bob Jr., bought and sold property, founded a bank, and created a park and auditorium for their people finer than the places whites had forbidden them to attend. However, the Church family operated through a tense arrangement with the Democrat machine run by the notorious E. H. “Boss” Crump, who stole elections and controlled city hall. The battle between this black dynasty and the white political machine would define the future of Memphis. Brilliantly researched and swiftly plotted, Beale Street Dynasty offers a captivating account of one of America’s iconic cities—by one of our most talented narrative historians.
Author : William Bearden
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738542379
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Memphis Blues written by William Bearden and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blues was born in the Mississippi Delta, and since that fateful night in 1903 when W. C. Handy heard the mournful sound of a pocketknife sliding over the strings of an acoustic guitar and the plaintive song of a long-forgotten musician in the hot night of Tutwiler, Mississippi, the blues has been on a journey around the world. From the cotton fields and juke joints of the Delta, up Highway 61 to Memphis's Beale Street, St. Louis, the Southside of Chicago, England, and points beyond, the blues is America's unique form of music. Blues is incisive in its honesty, elemental in its rhythm, and powerful in its almost visceral sensation. Nearly every style of popular music has its roots in the blues. Muddy Waters said it best: "The blues had a baby, and they called it rock and roll." Memphis has become the heart of the blues world, with a re-born Beale Street acting as its spiritual center. People come from the world over to experience its beat, savor its emotion, and feel its power. In the end . . . "it ain't nothin' but the blues."
Author : David Evans
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091124
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Ramblin' on My Mind written by David Evans and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of essays takes the study of the blues to a welcome new level. Distinguished scholars and well-established writers from such diverse backgrounds as musicology, anthropology, musicianship, and folklore join together to examine blues as literature, music, personal expression, and cultural product. Ramblin' on My Mind contains pieces on Ella Fitzgerald, Son House, and Robert Johnson; on the styles of vaudeville, solo guitar, and zydeco; on a comparison of blues and African music; on blues nicknames; and on lyric themes of disillusionment. Contributors are Lynn Abbott, James Bennighof, Katharine Cartwright, Andrew M. Cohen, David Evans, Bob Groom, Elliott Hurwitt, Gerhard Kubik, John Minton, Luigi Monge, and Doug Seroff.
Author : Louis Cantor
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252077326
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Dewey and Elvis written by Louis Cantor and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1949, while Elvis Presley and Sun Records were still virtually unknown--and two full years before Alan Freed famously "discovered" rock 'n' roll--Dewey Phillips brought the budding new music to the Memphis airwaves by playing Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, and Muddy Waters on his nightly radio show Red, Hot and Blue. The mid-South's most popular white deejay, "Daddy-O-Dewey" soon became part of rock 'n' roll history for being the first major disc jockey to play Elvis Presley and, subsequently, to conduct the first live, on-air interview with the singer. Louis Cantor illuminates Phillips's role in turning a huge white audience on to previously forbidden race music. Phillips's zeal for rhythm and blues legitimized the sound and set the stage for both Elvis's subsequent success and the rock 'n' roll revolution of the 1950s. Using personal interviews, documentary sources, and oral history collections, Cantor presents a personal view of the disc jockey while restoring Phillips's place as an essential figure in rock 'n' roll history.
Author : Wanda Rushing
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458755584
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Memphis and the Paradox of Place written by Wanda Rushing and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B. B. King, Johnny Cash, and other musical legends got their starts. It is also a place of conflict and tragedy - the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination - and a city typically marginalized by scholars and underest...
Author : Preston Lauterbach
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246752
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis written by Preston Lauterbach and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All aspects of [Beale Street's] complex, fascinating history are told…with verve and vivid erudition." —Wall Street Journal Between Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis thrived as a strip with a unique soul that reshaped American culture. Preston Lauterbach recounts the rise and fall of Beale Street through the life of the South’s first black millionaire, an ex-slave who built an underworld dynasty in the booming river town and created a space for black culture to flourish. A thrilling narrative history, Beale Street Dynasty tells an intriguing, previously unknown story about race in an American city.
