Lonesome roads and streets of dreams
Subtitle: place, mobility, and race in jazz of the 1930s and '40s
By: Andrew S. Berish
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226044941; 9780226044958
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Homes and haunts; Big band music; Music and race; Social aspects; History; Jazz musicians
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: I dream of her and Avalon: Jan Garber, sweet jazz, and race at the Casino Ballroom; title: From the "make-believe ballroom" to the Meadowbrook Inn: Charlie Barnet and the promise of the road; title: A locomotive laboratory of place: Duke Ellington and his Orchestra; title: Travels with Charlie Christian: between region and nation; title: Conclusion: air spaces.