66767

    Beale Street Dynasty Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis

    Norton & Company

    USA IMPORT HARDBACK BOOK OVER 60% OFF !!!!!

    Between Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, greed and race hatred, a strip with unique soul that inspired folk legends, scandalized Faulkner, and reshaped American politics. Preston Lauterbach tells this thrilling story through the life of the South s first black millionaire, an ex-slave named Robert Church, who built an underworld dynasty in the booming river town. With a compromised fortune gleaned from brothels and gambling houses, Church and his son bankrolled the militant civil rights activism of Ida B. Wells, 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 and swiftly plotted, Beale Street Dynasty evokes a lost world of swaggering musicians, glamorous madams, and ruthless politicians on the fabled Memphis strip."

    People also bought

    Studio One Freedom SoundsSoul Jazz Records
    Studio One Freedom Sounds is the new collection from Soul Jazz/Studio One focussing on the intense period in the second half of the 1960s when Studio...
    • Don Drummond & The Skatalites – Rain Or Shine
    • The Gaylads – Morning Sun
    • Delroy Wilson – Just Because Of You
    • Alton Ellis – Sunday Coming
    • Jackie Opel – I Am What I Am
    • Peter Tosh – I Am The Toughest
    • Delroy Wilson – Get Ready
    • Mr Foundation – Timo-Oh
    • Roland Alphonso & The Soul Brothers – Provocation
    • Leroy & Rocky – Love Me Girl
    • Slim & Delroy – Look Who Is Back Again
    • The Skatalites – Spread Satin
    • Barrington Spence – Contemplating Mind
    • Ernest Ranglin – Psychedelic Rock
    • Bob Marley & The Wailers – Destiny
    • Roland Alphonso – Reggae In The Grass
    • Zoot Simms – We Can Talk It Over
    • Jackie Mittoo – Hi Jack
    Fela : This Bitch Of A Life By Carlos Moore (2009)The Authorized Biography Of Africa's Musical GeniusLawrence Hill Books
    Revealing the hidden facts of this African superstar's complex personality and the truth about his tumultuous existence, this unique biography is based...
      • Original Book (350g)£50.00
        Original = hard to find out-of print edition paperback with wicked sleeve! In good condition
      Quadrophenia (1979)A FIlm By Franc Roddam Universal
      Jimmy (Phil Daniels) is a young Mod looking for pills, thrills and a sense of identity in 60s London. His increasing reliance on the buzz provided by...
        Modesty BlaiseA Film by Joseph LoseySecond Sight
        Mid-1960s comedy adventure based on Peter O'Donnell's comic strip. When former crime boss and sassy spy Modesty Blaise (Monica Vitti) is recruited by the...
          Coffy (1973)Starring Pam Grier, Music by Roy AyersMGM
          Coffy, a beautiful young nurse, is determined to exact revenge against the people responsible for turning her sister into a drug addict. She poses as a...
            Cleopatra JonesCleopatra Jones (1973)Warner Bros
            Tamara Dobson plays Cleopatra Jones, an undercover narcotics agent, charged with bringing down the infamous drugs trafficker "Mommy" (Shelly Winters) after...