Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia, 1930-1942 by Christopher Wilkinson

Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia, 1930-1942

Christopher Wilkinson

197 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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A study of how jazz greats dazzled and enlivened coal towns during the Great Depression The coal fields of West Virginia would seem an unlikely market for big band jazz during the Great Depression. That a prosperous African American audience domin...

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