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That St. Louis thing : an American story of roots, rhythm and race

Title
That St. Louis thing : an American story of roots, rhythm and race / Bruce R. Olson.
Author
Olson, Bruce R.
Publication
  • [Raleigh, N.C.] : Lulu Publishing Services, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Description
2 volumes; 23 cm
Summary
"That St. Louis thing is an American story of music, race relations and baseball. Here is over 100 years of the city's famed musical development -- blues, jazz and rock -- placed in the context of its civil rights movement and its political and economic power. Here, too, are the city's people brought alive from its foundation to the racial conflicts in Ferguson in 2014. The panorama of the city presents an often overlooked gem, music that goes far beyond famed artists such as Scott Joplin, Miles Davis and Tina Turner. The city is also the scene of a historic civil rights movement that remained important from its early beginnings into the twenty-first century. An here, too, are the sounds of the crack of the bat during a century-long love affair with baseball." -- From back cover.
Alternative Title
That Saint Louis thing
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
  • vol. 1. Birth of the blues to 1940. The founding: The French and the Osage, 1764 -- "The St. Louis blues", 1893-2014 -- Stagger Lee and Billy: Christmas, 1895 -- The crime goes viral, 1817-2014 -- The great cyclone of 1896 -- "Frankie and Johnny", 1899-2001 -- The streetcar strike and the boodle combine, 1900-1904 -- Ragtime: that "quaint creation", 1893-2014 -- Revival: the red light casts a long shadow, 1941-2013 -- The World's Fair 1904: "stupendous! exquisite! marvelous!" -- The democracy balloon, 1904-1914 -- "Now, ain't that a bitch": race riot, 1917 -- Music by the river: Henry Townsend and Satchmo, 1919-1923 -- Fun, fun, fun: baseball and Lindbergh, 1846-1927 -- The pre-war blues I: Lonnie Johnson, 1919-1930 -- The pre-war blues II: ramblin' round, 1930-1983 -- Hooverville, smoke and more smoke, 1930-1939 -- Peetie Wheatstraw and four more for the ages.
  • vol. 2. The forties to Ferguson. Prologue: cultural diversity and the burning fuse -- The forties: war and racism, 1940-2014 -- An iron curtain: Shelley, Pruitt-Igoe and the north side, 1945-2015 -- Jazz in the forties: Clark Terry, Miles Davis, 1941-1950 -- The rhythm of the fifties: Ike and Tina at the Club Imperial -- The Chuck and Johnnie show: trying to B. Goode -- Mill Creek destroyed, Gaslight Square, LaClede Town, 1959-1974 -- Civil rights in the sixties: CORE to the Black Liberators, 1960-1969 -- Jazz remade: the Black Artists' Group, 1968-1972 -- The sixties: Albert King and the integration of music, 1955-1968 -- Baseball: Browns, Blacks and birds, 1927-1968 -- Quid pro quo: Missed opportunities, 1965-1993 -- Nights on the Mississippi: the clubs and the performers, 1970-2007 -- The first annual Blues Festival: just call the song, 1986-2014 -- Johnson v. Berry: why can't you be true, 2000-2015 -- Baseball: five decades with the Cardinals, 1969-2015 -- A musical safari on the St. Louis scene, 2012 -- Ferguson: White and Black at high noon, 1993-2015.
Call Number
JNE 19-26
ISBN
  • 9781483457970
  • 1483457974
  • 9781483457994
  • 1483457990
  • 9781483457963 (canceled/invalid)
  • 1483457966 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781483457987 (canceled/invalid)
  • 1483457982 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
967779163
Author
Olson, Bruce R., author.
Title
That St. Louis thing : an American story of roots, rhythm and race / Bruce R. Olson.
Publisher
[Raleigh, N.C.] : Lulu Publishing Services, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Research Call Number
JNE 19-26
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