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Bricktop / Bricktop with James Haskins.

Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML420.B777 A3 1983
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bricktop, 1894-1984.
Haskins, James, 1941-2005, author.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Bricktop, 1894-1984.
Singers--United States--Biography.
Singers.
Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.).
African American women singers.
United States.
Europe.
African American women singers--Biography.
Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)--Europe.
Genre:
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xviii, 300 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits. ; 25 cm
Edition:
First Edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Atheneum, 1983.
Contents:
Early Years
On the Road
Saloon Singer
The War Years
Prohibition
Paris
Cole Porter ... and Josephine Baker
Bricktop's
Saloonkeeper par Excellence
The Golden Era
And We All Played On
The Crisis
New York
Mexico City
Return to Paris
The Holy Hustler
Hollywood-on-the-Tiber
Old Warhorse.
Notes:
"Designed by Kathleen Carey."
"Jacket design copyright © 2984 by Muriel Nasser."
Includes index.
Local Notes:
Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
ISBN:
0689113498 :
OCLC:
9154523

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