MARTIN TORGOFF


Bop Apocalypse Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs


A gripping nonfiction tale about the rise of early drug culture in America, by the author of the acclaimed Can’t Find My Way Home


America by weaving together the disparate elements that formed this new segment of the American fabric. Channeling his decades of writing experience,


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Torgoff connects the birth of jazz in New Orleans, the first drug laws, Louis Armstrong, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, swing, Lester Young, Billie Holliday, the Savoy Ballroom, Reefer Madness, Charlie Parker, the birth of bebop, the rise of the Beat Generation, and the launch of heroin in Harlem. Having spent a lifetime immersed in the over-


lapping worlds of music and drugs, Torgoff reveals material that has never been disclosed before. Bop Apocalypse is a truly fresh contrib ution to the understanding of jazz, race, and drug culture.


op apocalypse, a narrative history from master storyteller Martin Torgoff, details the rise of early drug culture in


MARTIN TORGOFF is an award-winning journalist and author, a documentary filmmaker, and an Emmy- nominated television writer, director, and producer. His book American Fool won the 1987 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. He lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.


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$25.99 | $33.99 (Can.) ISBN 978-0-306-82475-3


6 x 9 | 320 pages | 16 pages of black-&-white photographs Selling Territory: W


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