The Great American Popular Singers
- ISBN-10
- 0671540998
- ISBN-13
- 9780671540999
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985
- Publisher
- Touchstone
- Author
- Henry Pleasants
Description
Describes the styles and careers of leading popular singers who have worked in the Afro-American idiom
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