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Beale Street Dynasty : Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis by Preston Lauterbach
Beale Street Dynasty : Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis
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Author: Preston Lauterbach
Number of Pages: 368 pages
Published Date: 12 May 2015
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9780393082579
File Name: Beale.Street.Dynasty.Sex,.Song,.and.the.Struggle.for.the.Soul.of.Memphis.pdf
Download Link: Beale Street Dynasty Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis
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Between Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, greed and race hatred-a street that inspired folk legends and reshaped American politics. Preston Lauterbach tells this story through the life of the South's first black millionaire, an ex-slave named Robert Church. With a compromised fortune gleaned from brothels and gambling houses, Church and his son bankrolled militant civil rights activism, furnished the venues where W.C. Handy invented the blues and built a powerful black political machine. Fighting to redeem themselves and their city, these vice kings clashed with the forces of Jim Crow to create a hotbed of black culture. Brilliantly researched, Beale Street Dynasty evokes a lost world of swaggering musicians, glamorous madams and ruthless politicians.

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