BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20261027T000000Z DTEND:20261027T010000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Beyond Fiction Book Club - Dangerous Rhythms by T.J. English DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss this month's Beyond Fiction Book Club selection\, Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld by T.J. English. Books will be available to check out at the Adult Help Desk beginning Sept. 28. If you need help acquiring a book\, please reach out to Jill Morino at jmorino@wauclib.org. \n\nWe look forward to reading and discussing with you!\n\nREGISTER\n\nFrom T. J. English\, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne\, comes the epic\, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America.\n\nDangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of jazz and the underworld: a relationship fostered in some of 20th century America's most notorious vice districts. For the first half of the century mobsters and musicians enjoyed a mutually beneficial partnership. By offering artists like Louis Armstrong\, Earl "Fatha" Hines\, Fats Waller\, Duke Ellington\, Billie Holiday\, Lena Horne\, and Ella Fitzgerald a stage\, the mob\, including major players Al Capone\, Meyer Lansky\, and Charlie "Lucky" Luciano\, provided opportunities that would not otherwise have existed.\n\nEven so\, at the heart of this relationship was a festering racial inequity. The musicians were mostly African American\, and the clubs and means of production were owned by white men. It was a glorified plantation system that\, over time\, would find itself out of tune with an emerging Civil Rights movement. Some artists\, including Louis Armstrong\, believed they were safer and more likely to be paid fairly if they worked in "protected" joints. Others believed that playing in venues outside mob rule would make it easier to have control over their careers.\n\nThrough English's voluminous research and keen narrative skills\, Dangerous Rhythms reveals this deeply fascinating slice of American history in all its sordid glory. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Join us to discuss this month'\;s Beyond Fiction Book Club selection\, Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld by T.J. English. Books will be available to check out at the Adult Help Desk beginning Sept. 28.  \;If you need help acquiring a book\, please reach out to Jill Morino at jmorino@wauclib.org.  \;

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We look forward to reading and discussing with you!

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REGISTER

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From T. J. English\, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne\, comes the epic\, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America.

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Dangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of jazz and the underworld: a relationship fostered in some of 20th century America'\;s most notorious vice districts. For the first half of the century mobsters and musicians enjoyed a mutually beneficial partnership. By offering artists like Louis Armstrong\, Earl "\;Fatha"\; Hines\, Fats Waller\, Duke Ellington\, Billie Holiday\, Lena Horne\, and Ella Fitzgerald a stage\, the mob\, including major players Al Capone\, Meyer Lansky\, and Charlie "\;Lucky"\; Luciano\, provided opportunities that would not otherwise have existed.

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Even so\, at the heart of this relationship was a festering racial inequity. The musicians were mostly African American\, and the clubs and means of production were owned by white men. It was a glorified plantation system that\, over time\, would find itself out of tune with an emerging Civil Rights movement. Some artists\, including Louis Armstrong\, believed they were safer and more likely to be paid fairly if they worked in "\;protected"\; joints. Others believed that playing in venues outside mob rule would make it easier to have control over their careers.

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Through English'\;s voluminous research and keen narrative skills\, Dangerous Rhythms reveals this deeply fascinating slice of American history in all its sordid glory.

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