Come In and Hear the Truth
Subtitle: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: July 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780226080710
Subjects: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Genres & Styles - Jazz; United States - 20th Century; Social Science / African-American Studies; Social Science; Music/Songbooks; 1931-1940; 1941-1950; History and criticism; Jazz; Music and race; New York; New York (State); Sociology
Description: Between the mid-1930s and the late '40s the centre of the jazz world was a two-block stretch of 52nd Street in Manhattan. Dozens of crowded basement clubs played host to legends like Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday. These clubs defied the traditional boundaries between art and entertainment, and between the races.