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The Leonard Lopate Show

Dancing in the Dark

Monday, November 21, 2005

Caryl Phillips, author of A Distant Shore, discusses his latest book: Dancing in the Dark. It’s a fictionalized account of the life of Vaudeville star Bert Williams, one of the biggest African-American celebrities in the early 1900s.

» Bert Williams CD collection

Music: The Complete Bert Williams (A Sampler): #2 “Nobody,” #4 “Play That Barber-Shop Chord”


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