It Came from Memphis
It Came from Memphis
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Hardcover book and dust jacket in very good condition. Binding is square and tight. Pages are clean with no writing or highlights. Back of dust jacket has a tear and crease at bottom (see photo).
Delta bluesmen, a peanut vendor, a matinee cowboy, a professional wrestler, a manic deejay - these were the intersections where cultures collided in Memphis, Tennessee, in the 1950s. It Came from Memphis documents through firsthand accounts how an audience of white teenagers, caught in the middle of this extraordinary confluence of music, entrepreneurship, and eccentricity, broke through the walls of institutional racism and helped usher in a new musical form called rock and roll.
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