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Beale Street dynasty : sex, song, and the struggle for the soul of Memphis
Item details
- ISBN: 9780393082579 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 0393082571 (hbk.)
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Physical Description:
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xi, 352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Contents / Notes
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Birth of a kingpin, 1866-1885. There is no Yankee Doodle in Memphis ; A promiscuous running fight ; A frightful state of moral darkness ; Birth of a kingpin -- Birth of Beale, 1885-1892. Dividing the wages of sin ; Contributions from malefactors ; Free speech, high revelry, and low song ; The true spark of manhood -- Birth of the blues, 1901-1918. Red, gray, and blue ; Doctor said it'd kill me, but he didn't say when ; Purifying the moral atmosphere ; The gig ; We gonna barrelhouse anyhow ; Like a stone cast into the sea ; I'd rather be there than any place I know -- The lid, 1918-1940. All the pretty girls lived good ; In a class by himself ; The frolic ; The unholy combination ; Snitchin' gambler blues ; God's chillun ; Within the gates of Memphis ; A Boyle festers ; This is a white man's country. |
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