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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Dan Burley's Jive

Dan Burley's Jive

Aiello, Thomas

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ISBN10: 0875806236
ISBN13: 9780875806235
Publisher: Northern Illinois Univ
Published: Sep 15 2009
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.44 Depth: 8.36
Language: English

This book is a gem, and its reprinting highlights the contributions of one of the most creative and socially conscious wordsmiths in American history.
-- H. Samy Alim, UCLA, author of Roc the Mic Right

This retro volume combines two brilliant and long out-of-print books, Dan Burley's Original Handbook of Harlem Jive (1944) and Diggeth Thou? (1959) by Dan Burley, with an introduction by Thomas Aiello. Burley was a journalist and sportswriter who worked for various African American newspapers and magazines, including the Chicago Defender, Chicago Crusader, New York New Amsterdam News, Jet, and Ebony in both Chicago and New York in the 1920s through the 1950s. Although he did not invent jive, throughout the 1940s Burley's Handbook fostered it, popularized it, and broadened its use beyond the cloister of the jazz community. Jive acted as an invisible conduit between the new urban linguistics and the inevitably square world.

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