Research Catalog

Title

Deep Ellum : the other side of Dallas / Alan Govenar and Jay Brakefield.

Author

Govenar, Alan B., 1952-

Publication

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Brakefield, Jay F., 1945-

Description

x, 307 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Deep Ellum, on the eastern edge of downtown Dallas, retains its character as an alternative to the city s staid image with loft apartments, art galleries, nightclubs, and tattoo shops. It first sprang up as a ramshackle business district with saloons and variety theatres and evolved, during the early decades of the twentieth century, into a place where the black and white worlds of Dallas converged. This book strips away layers of myth to illuminate the cultural milieu that spawned such seminal blues and jazz musicians as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Buster Smith, and T-Bone Walker and that was also an incubator for the growth of western swing. Expanding upon the original 1998 publication, this Texas A&M University Press edition offers new research on Deep Ellum s vital cross-fertilization of white and black musical styles, many additional rare historical photographs, and an updated account of the area in the early years of the twenty-first century.

Series Statement

John and Robin Dickson series in Texas music

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• John and Robin Dickson series in Texas music.

Subjects

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Dallas (Tex.) > Social life and customs
• Deep Ellum (Dallas, Tex.) > History
• African Americans > Texas > Dallas > Music > History and criticism
• Popular music > Texas > Dallas > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Note

• Previously published under title: Deep Ellum and Central Track. Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-288) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Deep Ellum: fact and fiction -- "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.

ISBN

• 9781603449588 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1603449582 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781603449595 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
• 1603449590 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2012041446

OCLC

813301036

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library