South End Shout : Boston’s Forgotten Music Scene in the Jazz Age

• Main Author: House, Roger
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amherst, Massachusetts Lever Press 2023
• Subjects: African American & Black; African Americans; American Federation of Musicians Local 9; Aram “Al Vega” Vagramian; Armando “Chic” Corea; Benny Waters; Black History Project; Bobby Sawyer; Book Industry Communication; Boston Colored Musicians Union; Boston Tigers Baseball Club; Casino; Casper Gordon Studios; Charles Waldron; Charlie Holmes; Clarence Cameron White; Colored Knights of Pythias Temple; Community Service; Copley Plaza Hotel; Cotton Club; dancer; drummer; Duke Ellington; Economic conditions; Edward “Sonny” Stitt; Fat Man Robinson; Frankie Newton; Frederick Douglass Square; Gaiety Theater; Genres & Styles; George Broome; George Wein and Storyville; Harmony Shop; Harry Carney; Harry Hicks; Herbert Wright; Hi-Hat; History; History and Archaeology; History: specific events & topics; History: specific events and topics; Homes and haunts; Hotel Westminster Jazz; Humanities; James Reese Europe; James Vaughn; Jazz; Jazz Band; Jazz musicians; Jean Goldkette; Jenkins Orphanage Band; Johnny Hodges; League of Women; Leo Reisman; Leroy Curtis; Light orchestral & big band music; Local 535; Lower Roxbury; Mabel Robinson Simms; Madison Park; Mae Arnette; Mal Hallett; Malcolm X; Max Kaminsky; Mechanics Hall; Metropolitan Theatre; Music; Music: styles & genres; Music: styles and genres; Nat Hentoff; Nuncio “Toots” Mondello; Orchestra; Paul Whiteman; pianist; piano; Pickwick Club; Popular music; Preston Sandiford Society; Professional and Business Men’s Club; record producer; Richard Earle Pioneer Club; Roland Hayes; Roy Haynes; Ruby Foo’s Den; Ruggles Hall; Sabby Lewis; Savoy Cafe; saxophone; Shepard Colonial Tea Room; Shribman; Silas “Shag” and Balcom “Bal” Taylor and Pioneer Club; singer; Social & cultural history; Social and cultural history; Social conditions; Societies, etc; songwriter; Stanley Brown; Symphony Hall; The Arts; The Egyptian Room; thema EDItEUR; Tremont Theater; trumpet; Victorian Concert; violinist; Wally’s Paradise; Walter Johnson; Women’s Service Center; 20th century; Massachusetts; Boston
• DOI: 10.3998/mpub.12735924
• ISBN: 9781643150482; 1643150480; 1643150472; 9781643150475

South End Shout: Boston’s Forgotten Music Scene in the Jazz Age details the power of music in the city’s African American community, spotlighting the era of ragtime culture in the early 1900s to the rise of big band orchestras in the 1930s. This story is deeply embedded in the larger social condition of Black Bostonians and the account is brought to life by the addition of 20 illustrations of musicians, theaters, dance halls, phonographs, and radios used to enjoy the music. South End Shout is part of an emerging field of studies that examines jazz culture outside of the major centers of music production. In extensive detail, author Roger R. House covers the activities of jazz musicians, jazz bands, the places they played, the relationships between Black and white musicians, the segregated local branches of the American Federation of Musicians (AFL-CIO), and the economics of Boston’s music industry. Readers will be captivated by the inclusion of vintage local newspaper reports, classified advertisements, and details of hard-to-access oral history accounts by musicians and residents. These precious documentary materials help to understand how jazz culture evolved as a Boston art form and contributed to the national art form between the world wars. With this book, House makes an important contribution to American studies and jazz history. Scholars and general readers alike who are interested in jazz and jazz culture, the history of Boston and its Black culture, and 20th century American and urban studies will be enlightened and delighted by this book.