Beale Street: Where the Blues Began

Lee, George W.; W.C. Handy [Foreword]

Verlag: Robert O. Ballou, New York, 1934

Beschreibung

First edition. 296 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with purple spine label, gilt spine lettering, blindstamped front, black topstain. Near Fine with dulling to spine lettering, light wear, in the rare pictorial dust jacket, chipped along top edge, smaller chip at foot, a little dulling to spine panel, unclipped ($2.50).An influential history of the famous sound of Memphis, Tennessee: the blues. Memphis Heritage writes of the author, whose house on Stephens Place is preserved: "Lee was known on the streets of early twentieth century Memphis as 'Lieutenant Lee,' both for his army service as a lieutenant in World War I and as the lieutenant for the powerful African-American capitalist and Republican Party leader Robert Church, Sr. In Memphis during the 1920s and 1930s Lee was a leading Republican and African-American businessman. He also became one of the earliest historians of the Bluff City's African-American culture. A novelist and short story writer, he was sometimes also called 'The Boswell of Beale Street.'"Features an introduction by the Father of the Blues, musician W.C. Handy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 140945523

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Beale Street: Where the Blues Began

Verlag: Robert O. Ballou, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1934

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

Auflage: First edition.