Original Blues (eBook)

The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville
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2017 | EPub Single
420 Seiten
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-1003-8 (ISBN)

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Original Blues -  Lynn Abbott,  Doug Seroff
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Blues Book of the Year -Living BluesAssociation of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Gospel, Soul, or R&B-Certificate of Merit (2018)2023 Blues Hall of Fame Inductee - Classic of Blues Literature categoryWith this volume, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff complete their groundbreaking trilogy on the development of African American popular music. Fortified by decades of research, the authors bring to life the performers, entrepreneurs, critics, venues, and institutions that were most crucial to the emergence of the blues in black southern vaudeville theaters; the shadowy prehistory and early development of the blues is illuminated, detailed, and given substance.At the end of the nineteenth century, vaudeville began to replace minstrelsy as America's favorite form of stage entertainment. Segregation necessitated the creation of discrete African American vaudeville theaters. When these venues first gained popularity, ragtime coon songs were the standard fare. Insular black southern theaters provided a safe haven, where coon songs underwent rehabilitation and blues songs suitable for the professional stage were formulated. The process was energized by dynamic interaction between the performers and their racially-exclusive audience.The first blues star of black vaudeville was Butler "e;String Beans"e; May, a blackface comedian from Montgomery, Alabama. Before his bizarre, senseless death in 1917, String Beans was recognized as the "e;blues master piano player of the world."e; His musical legacy, elusive and previously unacknowledged, is preserved in the repertoire of country blues singer-guitarists and pianists of the race recording era.While male blues singers remained tethered to the role of blackface comedian, female "e;coon shouters"e; acquired a more dignified aura in the emergent persona of the "e;blues queen."e; Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and most of their contemporaries came through this portal; while others, such as forgotten blues heroine Ora Criswell and her protege Trixie Smith, ingeniously reconfigured the blackface mask for their own subversive purposes.In 1921 black vaudeville activity was effectively nationalized by the Theater Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.). In collaboration with the emergent race record industry, T.O.B.A. theaters featured touring companies headed by blues queens with records to sell. By this time the blues had moved beyond the confines of entertainment for an exclusively black audience. Small-time black vaudeville became something it had never been before-a gateway to big-time white vaudeville circuits, burlesque wheels, and fancy metropolitan cabarets. While the 1920s was the most glamorous and remunerative period of vaudeville blues, the prior decade was arguably even more creative, having witnessed the emergence, popularization, and early development of the original blues on the African American vaudeville stage.
Erscheint lt. Verlag 27.2.2017
Reihe/Serie American Made Music Series
American Made Music Series
Zusatzinfo 187 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort Jackson
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Jazz / Blues
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Musikgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Schlagworte African American Studies • baby soubrettes • Bessie Smith • blackface makeup • blues and jazz in burlesque • blues queen • Butler "String Beans" May • Butler “String Beans” May movies • Charles Anderson • Charles P. Bailey • Chicago Defender • Copyright • Fred A. Barrasso • gender impersonations • guitar • Handy's Orchestra • Handy’s Orchestra • Indianapolis Freeman • Indianopolis Freeman • jazz dances • Movies • music • Music History • Okeh Record Company • Pat Chappelle • Perry "Mule" Bradford • Perry “Mule” Bradford • popular culture • race records • Radio Broadcasting • theater owners booking association • theater pit bands • Virginia C. Liston • vocal quartets • W.C. Handy • William Benbow
ISBN-10 1-4968-1003-1 / 1496810031
ISBN-13 978-1-4968-1003-8 / 9781496810038
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