Beale Street

Cultural  

1. A street in an African-American section of Memphis, Tennessee, famous for its blues music. It is memorialized in the famous “Beale Street Blues.”

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Example Sentences

Marshals, and other authorities gathered at barricades along Beale Street, the city’s famous blues hub.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

Anderson grew up Toronto, raised by a single mother alongside his two brothers, one of which is Stephan James who starred in 2018’s Oscar-nominated “If Beale Street Could Talk,” as well as Ava DuVernay’s “Selma.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2023

Graceland’s 450-room hotel, a separate property on its grounds, sold out “immediately,” Mr. Kane said, and hotels near the museum and Beale Street, where musicians such as Elvis Presley and B.B.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2023

Nicholas Britell has featured cellist Caitlin Sullivan on the majority of his film scores — most prominently in “If Beale Street Could Talk.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2022

All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the "Beale Street Blues" while a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shining dust.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald