
Deep Ellum and Central Track
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Just outside of downtown Dallas lies a section of the city called Deep Ellum, where graffiti and murals decorate the walls of trendy shops, loft apartments, restaurants, nightclubs, art galleries, and tattoo studios. The area has been home to a remarkable array of businesses, creatives, and artistic practices since its birth 150 years ago as a Black center of business.Because of the area's long association with blues and jazz musicians, Deep Ellum has been shrouded in myth and misconceptions which obscure its actual history.
Alan Govenar and Jay Brakefield?using oral histories, old newspapers and photographs, city directories and maps, as well as more traditional public records and secondary sources?reveal another side of Deep Ellum which includes Central Track (formerly called Central Avenue), an area lined with Black-owned businesses which served both Black and white patrons during its heyday in the 1920s and 30s.In the Deep Ellum and Central Track areas, African Americans and whites, primarily Eastern European Jews, operated businesses from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries, creating a unique social climate where cultural interaction took place.
Much of the information in the book is presented through the stories of remarkable individuals, including professionals, pawnbrokers and other merchants, police officers, criminals, and the blues and jazz musicians who had a lasting impact on American popular music.
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Jay Brakefield is a native of Houston and graduated from the University of Houston with a BA in English in 1968. He spent four decades as a newspaper reporter and copy editor. Early on he developed a keen interest in "roots music," especially blues and jazz, and wrote a number of related articles for The Dallas Morning News. Brakefield and Alan Govenar have collaborated on a number of projects.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter One: "Deep Elem Blues": Song of the Street
- Chapter Two: The Railroads Create Deep Ellum
- Chapter Three: William Sidney Pittman: Architect of Deep Ellum
- Chapter Four: Black Dallas
- Chapter Five: Jewish Pawnbrokers and Merchants of Deep Ellum
- Chapter Six: Blind Lemon Jefferson: Downhome Blues
- Chapter Seven: The Contemporaries of Blind Lemon
- Chapter Eight: Blind Willie Johnson and Arizona Dranes: The "Holy Blues" of Deep Ellum
- Chapter Nine: Alex Moore: Dallas Piano Blues
- Chapter Ten: Buster Smith: Dallas Jazz Goes to Kansas City and New York
- Chapter Eleven: Marvin Montgomery: The Cross-Fertilization of White and Black Musical Styles
- Chapter Twelve: The Contemporaries of Marvin Montgomery: Western Swing, Texas Fiddling, and the Big "D" Jamboree
- Chapter Thirteen: Benny Binion: Gambling and the Policy Racket
- Chapter Fourteen: Deep Ellum's Just Too Doggone Slow: Decline and Rebirth
- Postscript
- Notes
- Selected Discography
- Bibliography
- Index
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