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

Preston Lauterbach

368 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history music challenging informative slow-paced
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Following the Civil War, Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, violence and passion. But out of this turmoil emerged a center of black progress, optimism, and cultural ferment. Preston Lauterbach tells this viv...

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