It takes the average reader 3 hours and 33 minutes to read Keeping the Beat on the Street by Mick Burns
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Keeping the Beat on the Street celebrates the renewed passion and pageantry among black brass bands in New Orleans. Mick Burns introduces the people who play the music and shares their insights, showing why New Orleans is the place where jazz continues to grow. Brass bands waned during the civil rights era but revived around 1970 and then flourished in the 1980s when the music became cool with the younger generation. In the only book to cover this revival, Burns interviews members from a variety of bands, including the Fairview Baptist Church...
Keeping the Beat on the Street by Mick Burns is 212 pages long, and a total of 53,424 words.
This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 65% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 51 minutes to read Keeping the Beat on the Street aloud.
Keeping the Beat on the Street is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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