Central Avenue Sounds

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Central Avenue Sounds
Author : Clora Bryant
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Language : English
Release Date : 29 March 1998
ISBN : 0520220986
Pages : 502 pages
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Here too are recollections of Hollywood's effects on local culture, the precedent-setting merger of the black and white musicians' unions, and the repercussions from the racism in the Los Angeles Police Department in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Central Avenue Sounds

Here too are recollections of Hollywood's effects on local culture, the precedent-setting merger of the black and white musicians' unions, and the repercussions from the racism in the Los Angeles Police Department in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Central Avenue Sounds

Here too are recollections of Hollywood's effects on local culture, the precedent-setting merger of the black and white musicians' unions, and the repercussions from the racism in the Los Angeles Police Department in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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