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Torgoff, Martin.
Subjects
Jazz -- History and criticism.
Jazz musicians -- United States.
Music and race -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Beat generation.
Drugs -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Torgoff, Martin.
Jazz -- History and criticism.
Jazz musicians -- United States.
Music and race -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Beat generation.
Drugs -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Bop apocalypse : jazz, race, the beats, and
drugs
/ Martin Torgoff.
by
Torgoff, Martin.
Da Capo Press, c2016.
Call #:
781.650973 T682b
Subjects
Jazz
--
History
and criticism.
Jazz musicians
--
United
States
.
Music and race
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Beat generation.
Drugs
--
Social
aspects
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
ISBN:
9780306824753 (hc.)
0306824752 (hc.)
Description:
xiv, 412 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Red-dirt marijuana
--
Stompin' at the Savoy
--
The paranoid spokesman
--
Two hits of that stuff, and Jack, you'd be mellow
--
The white mayor of Harlem
--
Pops
--
The misdo gets meanor and meanor (jailhousely speaking)
--
The great tenor solo in the shoeshine jukebox
--
You mean there's something like this in the world?
--
Once known, never forgotten
--
The shot heard 'round the world
--
You're buzzing, baby
--
And the hippos were boiled in their tanks
--
Summary:
A gripping narrative non-fiction tale about the rise of the early drug culture in America, by the author of the acclaimed Can't Find My Way Home.
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