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The Black Musicians and the White City: Race and Music in Chicago, 1900–1967. By Amy Absher . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. - The Pekin: The Rise and Fall of Chicago's First Black-Owned Theater. By Thomas Bauman . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2017

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