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Great cover for a book on the music business and breaking the color line that kept white people and African Americans apart. Billie Holliday, Lena Horne, Alberta Walker have parts in this book. Holliday's song "Strange Fruit" first played at this club. Author claims Cafe Society was the first club to feature interracial bands. Lots of gossip and cameo word pictures of musicians of the time. Jazz in its element. The role of money in the entertainment business and how much bands were paid between 1930-1960. Book has been read. Text unmarked.but the spine is tight. No visible flaws. Index. Notes. Lots of illustrations of musicians,
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Cafe Society: wrong place for the right people
by Josephson, Barney and Terry Trilling-Josephson
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