Beale Black & Blue: Life and Music on Black America's Main Street
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Availability:In StockContributor:Margaret McKee, Fred ChisenhallSeries:Life and Music on Black America's Main StreetPublish date:1993-09-01Pages:280
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807118863ISBN-10:807118869UPC:9780807118863Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, EthnomusicologyBook Topic:Soul & R&BSize:9.04 x 5.98 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SC2N1QR8X4
Beale Black & Blue: Life and Music on Black America's Main Street
W. C. Handy, Furry Lewis, Booker White, Lillie May Glover, Roosevelt Sykes, Arthur Crudup, B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Muddy Waters -- these and other musicians, singers, and songwriters, including the young Elvis Presley, eventually went to Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, to learn, improve, and practice their art. "To Handy and untold other blacks, Beale became as much a symbol of escape...
Series: Life and Music on Black America's Main Street
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807118863ISBN-10:807118869UPC:9780807118863Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, EthnomusicologyBook Topic:Soul & R&BSize:9.04 x 5.98 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SC2N1QR8X4
OLD BIO Margaret McKee was a reporter for several years on the Memphis Press-Scimitar.Fred Chisenhall is the assistant managing editor of the Memphis Press-Scimitar.
Margaret McKee and her husband, Fred Chisenhall (1932-2008), worked in the newspaper business in Memphis for many years.Publisher: LSU Press
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