Deep Ellum [electronic resource] : the other side of Dallas / Alan Govenar and Jay Brakefield.
Material type: TextSeries: Publication details: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2013. 2015)Edition: 1st Texas A&M University Press edDescription: 1 online resource (320 p.)ISBN:- 9781603449595
- 1603449590
- 781.6409764/2812 23
- ML3477.8.D35 G68 2013
Previously published under title: Deep Ellum and Central Track. Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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