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Harlem nights : the secret history of Australia's Jazz Age /
"The 1920s were a time of wonder and flux, when Australians sensed a world growing smaller, turning faster--and, for some, skittering off balance. American movies, music and dance brought together what racial lines kept apart. A spirit of youthful rebellion collided with the promise of racial p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carlton, Victoria :
Melbourne University Press,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : the frame-up
- Tijuana nights in Phoenix and Los Angeles. The education of Sonny Clay ; Independence Day ; Across the River Styx : Sonny Clay's Tijuana ; South Central Avenue, Los Angeles ; The lost angels
- In California with Harry Muller. The best box office judge in Australia ; The real Charleston ; Testing the waters
- Rattlin' fine Sydney. My blue heaven ; The jazzing spheres ; A comparative vacation ; American boomerang
- Views of commonwealth policy. Major Lloyd's investigation branch ; The 'black menace' ; Synchronising operations
- The making of modern Melbourne. The Carlyon touch ; A sterling advertisement for Australian girlhood ; Miss 1928 ; Jazz night
- Keeping orchestras British. Cecil Trevelyan's questions of principle ; War on American players
- Petty sessions. Constable Saker tells the truth ; Women who bite policemen ; Silk petticoats and mauve pyjamas ; Tooth and law
- Idle and disorderly. The eight hour day ; A young woman in trouble ; Judicial theatre ; A captive audience
- Unwritten law. The Sydney express ; British justice ; Citizen soldier ; The character test
- Purification rites. Storm centre ; This bit of earth ; Fit for the task ; Saving Edna Langdon
- On their way. The non-stop endurance dance record ; Sailaway streamers
- The quarantine blues. Shake it and break it and let it fall ; What now? ; Bagging the cat.