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Title: Dream Lucky: When FDR Was in the White House, Count Basie Was on the Radio, and Everyone Wore a Hat...
Author: Roxane Orgill
ISBN: 9780060897505
Publisher: Smithsonian
Published: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 242
Publisher Description: <p>The time: 1936-1938. The mood: Hopeful. It wasn't wartime, not yet. The music: The incomparable Count Basie and Benny Goodman, among others. The setting: Living rooms across America and, most of all, New York City.</p><p><em>Dream Lucky</em> covers politics, race, religion, arts, and sports, but the central focus is the period's soundtrack--specifically big band jazz--and the big-hearted piano player William "Count" Basie. His ascent is the narrative thread of the book--how he made it and what made his music different from the rest. But many other stories weave in and out: Amelia Earhart pursues her dream of flying "around the world at its waistline." Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., stages a boycott on 125th Street. And Mae West shocks radio listeners as a naked Eve tempting the snake.</p><p>Critic Nat Hentoff praises the "precise originality" with which Roxane Orgill writes about music. In <em>Dream Lucky</em>, she magically lets readers hear the past. </p>
Author: Roxane Orgill
ISBN: 9780060897505
Publisher: Smithsonian
Published: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 242
Publisher Description: <p>The time: 1936-1938. The mood: Hopeful. It wasn't wartime, not yet. The music: The incomparable Count Basie and Benny Goodman, among others. The setting: Living rooms across America and, most of all, New York City.</p><p><em>Dream Lucky</em> covers politics, race, religion, arts, and sports, but the central focus is the period's soundtrack--specifically big band jazz--and the big-hearted piano player William "Count" Basie. His ascent is the narrative thread of the book--how he made it and what made his music different from the rest. But many other stories weave in and out: Amelia Earhart pursues her dream of flying "around the world at its waistline." Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., stages a boycott on 125th Street. And Mae West shocks radio listeners as a naked Eve tempting the snake.</p><p>Critic Nat Hentoff praises the "precise originality" with which Roxane Orgill writes about music. In <em>Dream Lucky</em>, she magically lets readers hear the past. </p>
