Name/Title
Ashley Street blues: Racial uplift and the commodification of vernacular performance in Lavilla, Florida, 1896-1916Entry/Object ID
Library.1538Tags
Library JAMM as of June 4, 2023Description
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
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Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch 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 DunbaughPublisher
UMI Dissertation ServicesPlace Published
* Untyped Place Published
Ann Arbor, Mich.Call No.
ML 200.8 .J3 S65 2006