Ashley Street blues: Racial uplift and the commodification of vernacular performance in Lavilla, Florida, 1896-1916

Name/Title

Ashley Street blues: Racial uplift and the commodification of vernacular performance in Lavilla, Florida, 1896-1916

Entry/Object ID

Library.1538

Tags

Library JAMM as of June 4, 2023

Description

143 pages : 27 cm Ashley Street blues: Racial uplift and the commodification of vernacular performance in Lavilla, Florida, 1896-1916 by Peter Dunbaugh Smith,. "Traces the interconnecting narratives of the entertainment communities that flourished during the early years of the twentieth century in LaVilla, one of Jacksonville, Florida's African-American neighborhoods."--Abstract. Includes bibliographical references. JAMM Ph.D. Thesis, Florida State University, 2006. Photocopy UMI Microform number 3216542 Includes information on: John Rosamond Johnson, Eugene Francis Mikell, Patrick Chappelle's Rabbit Foot Minstrels, Frank Crowd's Globe Theater, Billy Kersands, Ma Rainey, Jelly Roll Morton, Colored Airdome on Ashley Street, Russell-Owens stock company, Carl R. Ditson, Aunt Cook Pankey's theatrical stage production at Edward Waters College. Impresarios who settled here include Tim Owsley, Marion Brooks, Clarence Muse, and L. D. Joel. Blues leaders included Calvin "Eagle Eye" Shields, Alonzo Ross and the Deluxe Syncopaters, Arthur "Blind Blake" Phelps. Contents: Lavilla and Jacksonville -- Great whiite way -- On stage, under canvas --We will soon reach the ladder -- The management so by nature -- Tough on Black artists -- Ashley Street blues -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Biographical sketch.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

African American entertainers -- Florida -- Jacksonville., African Americans -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- Music., Vaudeville -- Florida -- Jacksonville., La Villa (Jacksonville, Fla.)., Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond), 1873-1954., Jacksonville Area Music Museum (JAMM).

Publication Details

Author

Smith, Peter Dunbaugh

Publisher

UMI Dissertation Services

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Ann Arbor, Mich.

Call No.

ML 200.8 .J3 S65 2006