Ink

The Indelible J. Mayo Williams

Clifford R. Murphy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2024
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08798-1 (ISBN)

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The product of a hardscrabble childhood, J. Mayo “Ink” Williams parlayed an Ivy League education into unlikely twin careers as a foundational producer of Black music and pioneering Black player in the early NFL. Clifford R. Murphy tells the story of an ambitious, upwardly mobile life affected, but never daunted, by white society’s racism or the Black community’s class tensions. Williams caroused with Paul Robeson, recorded the likes of Ma Rainey and Blind Lemon Jefferson, and lined up against Chicago Bears player-coach George Halas. Though resented by the artists he exploited, Williams combined a rock-solid instinct for what would sell with an ear for music that put him at the forefront of finding, recording, and blending blues and jazz. Murphy charts Williams’s wide-ranging accomplishments while providing portraits of the cutthroat recording industry and the possibilities, however constrained, of Black life in the 1920s and 1930s.

Vivid and engaging, Ink brings to light the extraordinary journey of a Black businessman and athlete.

Clifford R. Murphy is a musician and ethnomusicologist. He is a founding member of the rock band Say ZuZu, the director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and the author of Yankee Twang: Country and Western Music in New England.

Introduction: Black Bottom

Chapter 1. Ink

Chapter 2. Howard

Chapter 3. Brown

Chapter 4. Buffalo Soldier

Chapter 5. Williams vs. Yale

Chapter 6. Alpha

Chapter 7. Sambo

Chapter 8. Black Swan

Chapter 9. Hammond Pro

Chapter 10. Paramount

Chapter 11. Bronzeville

Chapter 12. Mother of the Blues

Chapter 13. Bulldog

Chapter 14. Blind Lemon

Chapter 15. Black Patti

Chapter 16. Hokum

Chapter 17. Bumble Bee

Chapter 18. Maroon Tiger

Chapter 19. Sepia

Chapter 20. Outskirts

Chapter 21. Kingfish

Chapter 22.Ebony

Chapter 23. Pioneer

Postscript: Indelible

Notes

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2024
Reihe/Serie	Music in American Life
Zusatzinfo	20 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	513 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-252-08798-4 / 0252087984
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08798-1 / 9780252087981
Zustand	Neuware