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“Lauterbach’s tribute . . . is welcome and overdue.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

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"Lauterbach spins the tale with enormous vitality and it's terribly fun to read. He masterfully explains the complex logistics of the entertainment industry, and studs the book with fascinating, little-known characters... The reader will finish with an overwhelming urge to turn up the volume." -- Kate Tuttle "A well-researched valentine to a lost world of seedy con men, promoters and club owners, the power brokers and hustlers who made the 'circuitry spark.'" -- Eddie Dean "...crucial to our understanding of late-20th-century pop music and all the more impressive for its exhaustive research. Preston Lauterbach's book-spirited, studious, surprising, occasionally hilarious-is absolutely persuasive on its subject." -- Stephen M. Deusner "Opens new doors in pop-music scholarship as well as American (and African-American) cultural history." -- Michaelangelo Matos "This sprawling, fascinating history drops readers into a chaotic, dangerous, utterly vanished world." -- John Repp "[T]he genius prequel to an oft-told epic."

The Chitlin Circuit And the Road to Rock n Roll

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    A Paperback / softback by Preston Lauterbach

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      Publisher WW Norton & Co
      Published 24 August 2012
      ISBN-13 9780393342949
      978-0393342949
      ISBN-10 0393342948
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      Book Synopsis
      “Lauterbach’s tribute . . . is welcome and overdue.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

      Trade Review
      "Lauterbach spins the tale with enormous vitality and it's terribly fun to read. He masterfully explains the complex logistics of the entertainment industry, and studs the book with fascinating, little-known characters... The reader will finish with an overwhelming urge to turn up the volume." -- Kate Tuttle "A well-researched valentine to a lost world of seedy con men, promoters and club owners, the power brokers and hustlers who made the 'circuitry spark.'" -- Eddie Dean "...crucial to our understanding of late-20th-century pop music and all the more impressive for its exhaustive research. Preston Lauterbach's book-spirited, studious, surprising, occasionally hilarious-is absolutely persuasive on its subject." -- Stephen M. Deusner "Opens new doors in pop-music scholarship as well as American (and African-American) cultural history." -- Michaelangelo Matos "This sprawling, fascinating history drops readers into a chaotic, dangerous, utterly vanished world." -- John Repp "[T]he genius prequel to an oft-told epic."

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