Come in and Hear the Truth Jazz and Race on 52nd Street

Name: Come in and Hear the Truth Jazz and Race on 52nd Street
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ISBN: 9780226080710

ISBN-10: 0226080714

ISBN-13: 9780226080710

Edition: 2008

Authors: Patrick Burke

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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 entertainment—and between the races, as 52nd Street was home to some of the first nightclubs in New York to allow racially integrated bands and audiences. Patrick Burke argues that the jazz played on 52nd Street complicated simplistic…

Book details

List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.89" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



First for the Musicians, Then for the World: The Birth of Swing Street



Let's Have a Jubilee: 52nd Street Goes Commercial



Here Comes the Man with the Jive: Stuff Smith



A Little Law and Order in My Music: The John Kirby Sextet and Maxine Sullivan



Swingin' Down That Lane: 52nd Street at the Height of the Swing Era



Making It into the Big Time: Count Basie, Joe Marsala, and "Mixed" Bands



This Conglomeration of Colors: Bebop Comes to Swing Street



Apples and Oranges: 52nd Street and the Jazz War


Conclusion: Long May It Be Remembered



Chronology of 52nd Street Clubs


Notes


Index