Deep Ellum and Central Track where the cultures converged
"Deep Elem Blues" : song of the street -- The railroads create Deep Ellum -- William Sidney Pittman : architect of Deep Ellum -- Black Dallas -- Jewish Pawnbrokers and merchants of Deep Ellum -- Blind Lemon Jefferson : downhome blues -- The contemporaries of Blind Lemon -- Blind Willie Joh...
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Dallas, Texas
La Reunion Publishing
2022
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Deep Elem Blues" : song of the street -- The railroads create Deep Ellum -- William Sidney Pittman : architect of Deep Ellum -- Black Dallas -- Jewish Pawnbrokers and merchants of Deep Ellum -- Blind Lemon Jefferson : downhome blues -- The contemporaries of Blind Lemon -- Blind Willie Johnson and Arizona Dranes: the "Holy Blues" of Deep Ellum -- Alex Moore : Dallas piano blues -- Buster Smith : Dallas jazz goes to Kansas City and New York -- Marvin Montgomery : the cross-fertilization of white and Black musical styles -- The contemporaries of Marvin Montgomery : western swing, Texas fiddling, and the Big "D" Jamboree -- Benny Binion : gambling and the policy racket -- Deep Ellum's just too doggone slow : decline and rebirth "Just outside of downtown Dallas lies a section of the city called Deep Ellum, where graffiti and murals decorate the walls of trendy shops, loft apartments, restaurants, nightclubs, art galleries, and tattoo studios. The area has been home to a remarkable array of businesses, creatives, and artistic practices since its birth 150 years ago as a Black center of business. Because of the area's long association with blues and jazz musicians, Deep Ellum has been shrouded in myth and misconceptions which obscure its actual history. Alan Govenar and Jay Brakefield-using oral histories, old newspapers and photographs, city directories and maps, as well as more traditional public records and secondary sources-reveal another side of Deep Ellum which includes Central Track (formerly called Central Avenue), an area lined with Black-owned businesses which served both Black and white patrons during its heyday in the 1920s and 30s. In the Deep Ellum and Central Track areas, African Americans and whites, primarily Eastern European Jews, operated businesses from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries, creating a unique social climate where cultural interaction took place. Much of the information in the book is presented through the stories of remarkable individuals, including professionals, pawnbrokers and other merchants, police officers, criminals, and the blues and jazz musicians who had a lasting impact on American popular music"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | 307 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781646053117 978-1-64605-311-7 |