{"product_id":"ragged-but-right-black-traveling-shows-coon-songs-and-the-dark-pathway-to-blues-and-jazz-paperback","title":"Ragged But Right: Black Traveling Shows, Coon Songs, and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLynn Abbott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDoug Seroff\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe commercial explosion of ragtime in the early twentieth century created previously unimagined opportunities for black performers. However, every prospect was mitigated by systemic racism. The biggest hits of the ragtime era weren't Scott Joplin's stately piano rags. \"Coon songs,\" with their ugly name, defined ragtime for the masses, and played a transitional role in the commercial ascendancy of blues and jazz. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eRagged but Right\u003c\/i\u003e, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff investigate black musical comedy productions, sideshow bands, and itinerant tented minstrel shows. Ragtime history is crowned by the \"big shows,\" the stunning musical comedy successes of Williams and Walker, Bob Cole, and Ernest Hogan. Under the big tent of Tolliver's Smart Set, Ma Rainey, Clara Smith, and others were converted from \"coon shouters\" to \"blues singers.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Throughout the ragtime era and into the era of blues and jazz, circuses and Wild West shows exploited the popular demand for black music and culture, yet segregated and subordinated black performers to the sideshow tent. Not to be confused with their nineteenth-century white predecessors, black, tented minstrel shows such as the Rabbit's Foot and \u003ci\u003eSilas Green from New Orleans\u003c\/i\u003e provided blues and jazz-heavy vernacular entertainment that black southern audiences identified with and took pride in.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynn Abbott\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar living in New Orleans. His work has been published in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Music\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e78 Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Music Research Center Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Jazz Archivist\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eDoug Seroff\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar living in Greenbrier, TN. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Music\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Music Research Newsletter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlues Unlimited\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRecord Exchanger\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. A leading expert on black gospel quartet singing for twenty-five years, he has written chapters published in anthologies and many scholarly essays for a wide variety of journals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 472\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 10 x 7.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 19, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47468676808882,"sku":"9781617036453","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/fe344e9a3bf6bae227677b49568df94e.webp?v=1779056552","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/ragged-but-right-black-traveling-shows-coon-songs-and-the-dark-pathway-to-blues-and-jazz-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}