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Bop apocalypse : jazz, race, the beats, and drugs / Martin Torgoff.

by Torgoff, Martin.

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Da Capo Press, c2016.

781.650973 T682b

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.

9780306824753 (hc.)

0306824752 (hc.)

xiv, 412 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 --

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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