| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Come In and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street. By Patrick Burke. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xiv, 314 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-226-08071-0.)

Anyone familiar with jazz history in the United States will recognize Fifty-second Street in New York City as an important site for the development of jazz in the 1930s and 1940s. It has been represented as a place where black and white jazz musicians interacted freely and easily, as a magnet for police action in response to the tensions that arose from interracial gatherings, as the "cradle of swing," and as a battlefield of the "jazz war" of the late 1940s. All agree, however, that race informed the music and the setting in which it was performed.

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