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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People

Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People

Josephson, Barney
Trilling-Josephson, Terry
Morgenstern, Dan

Hardcover

Series: Music in American Life

Entertainment & Performing ArtsGeneral World HistoryJazz

Publisher Price: $33.95

ISBN10: 0252034139
ISBN13: 9780252034138
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: Mar 1 2009
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.86
Height: 1.33 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.28
Language: English

Set against the drama of the Great Depression, the conflict of American race relations, and the inquisitions of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Cafe Society tells the personal history of Barney Josephson, proprietor of the legendary interracial New York City night clubs Cafe Society Downtown and Cafe Society Uptown and their successor, The Cookery. Famously known as the wrong place for the Right people, Cafe Society featured the cream of jazz and blues performers--among whom were Billie Holiday, boogie-woogie pianists, Big Joe Turner, Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Big Sid Catlett, and Mary Lou Williams--as well as comedy stars Imogene Coca, Zero Mostel, and Jack Gilford, and also gospel and folk singers. A trailblazer in many ways, Josephson welcomed black and white artists alike to perform for mixed audiences in a venue whose walls were festooned with artistic and satiric murals lampooning what was then called high society.

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