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Able, Will
Abyssinia
Acuff, Roy
Aiken, Buddy
Aiken, Gus
Alabama Fun Makers Company
Alabama Rosebuds Company
Alhambra Hotel (Memphis)
Allen, G. W.
Allen, India
Allen, Mack
Allen’s New Orleans Minstrels
Alston, Ladson Beverly “Kid”
Alton, Jimmy
Anderson, Charles
Anderson, Elmira
Anderson, James
Anderson, Joe
Anderson, R. J. “Dickie”
Anderson, Sadie
Andrews, Ed
Andrews, R. L.
Anthony, Emmett
anti-blues commentaries
Armstrong, Louis
Arnold, Charles “Pas”
Arnold, J. F.
Arnold, Sam
Arnte, Billy
Arnte, Grace
Arnte, Mabel
Arrant, Charles
Arrant, Lena
Arrant, Mabel
Arto Phonograph Company
Ashford, R. T.
“Assassinators of the blues”
Associated Negro Press
“At the Lighthouse”
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Independent
Atlanta Journal
“Aunt Dinah’s Picnic”
Austin, James
Austin, Little Cuba
Austin, Lovie
Austin, S. A. “Buddie”
Avery, Jimmie
Ayers, George W.
Babb Frank’s Peerless Band
Baby Jim
Baby Josh
Baby Mack
“baby soubrettes”
“Bad Riley”
Bailey, Charles P.
Bailey, Frank “Bozo”
Bailey, Laura (Criswell and Bailey)
Bailey, Tom
Bailey’s Vaudeville Circuit
Baker, Edith
Baker, George
Ball, Ben
Baltimore Afro-American
band contests
Bandanna Land
Bane, Kirk
Banks, Paul
Barbecue Bob
Barber, The
“Barber Shop, The”
Barnes, Hi Jerry
Barnett, Richard H.
Barras, Noner
Barrasso, Anselmo
Barrasso, Fred A.
Barrasso, Generoso
Barrasso, Rosa
Barrasso’s Big Sensation Company
Barrasso’s Strollers
Barrington and Barrington
Bartley, Buddy (Bottley) (Joseph Haywood)
Basie, Count
Batis, Bob
Baxter, Thomas
Bechet, Sidney
Bedsley, Charles
Beechum, Charles
Bell, Senator
Ben “Footsie” Ball’s Peerless Orchestra
Benbow, Alberta
Benbow, Edna Landry
Benbow, Elzer
Benbow, Retta
Benbow, William
Benbow’s Chocolate Drops
Benbow’s Fun Factory
Benbow’s Merry Makers
Benevolent Order of Colored Professionals (Buffaloes)
Benjamin, E. J.
Benjamin, Nellie
Bennett, Clarence
Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra
Berlin, Irving
Berry, John
“Between the Firing Lines”
Big Five Minstrel Company
Big Road Blues (Evans)
Bigeou, Esther
Billboard
Billy Kersands’s Minstrels
Billy King Stock Company
Black, Henry
Black, Perry
Black Diamond Quartette
Black Patti Troubadours
Black Swan Record Company
Black Swan Troubadours
“Black Volunteers, The”
blackface makeup
Blake, Eubie
Blake, Will
Blind Blake
Bliss, Billy
Blue, Archie
Blue Steel Stock Company
blues queens
blues record star system
blues singing contests
Bly, Blaine
Bogert, Pen
Bolden, Buddy
“Bolivia from Possom Trot”
Bolton, Happy
Bonner, Harry
“Booker T. Cruising on the High Seas”
Booker T.’s Reception
Boone, John C.
Borden, Anita
Borden, Nettie
Boudreaux, L. S.
Boudreaux & Bennett
Bowman, H. Henri
“Boy Said ‘Will You’? and the Girl Said, ‘Yes,’ The”
Bracey, Ishman
Bradford, Isaac
Bradford, L. Don
Bradford, Mary
Bradford, Mittie
Bradford, Perry “Mule”
Bradley, Billy
Brannon, Duke
Brannon, Rosetta
Brashear, Lorenzo
Breaux & Whitlow
Breckenridge, Steve
Breckenridge Jubilee Singers
Breze, Thomas
Briggs, Tom
“Bringing Up Husbands”
Broadnax, Homer
Broadway, New York
Brooks, Clifford D.
Brooks, Marion A.
Brooks, Shelton
Brooks-Smith Players
Broonzy, Big Bill
Brown, Ada
Brown, Babe
Brown, Bessie
Brown, Bishop
Brown, E. B.
Brown, Kittie
Brown, L. T.
Brown, Lillyn
Brown, Lucien
Brown, Ora
Brown, Ralph
Brown, Rastus
Brown, Seamon
Brown, Sterling
Brown, Thornton G.
Brown, Tobe “T. B.”
Brown, Walter
Bruce & Skinner Stock Company
Brymn, James Tim
buck and wing. See dances
buck dance. See dances
Buckner, Rastus
Bumbray, Helen
Bumpsky, Kid
“Buncoed in Louisiana”
burlesque shows, blues and jazz in
Burley, Dan
Burnett, Rev. J. C.
Burns, Gretchen
Burns, Sandy
Burroughs, Theresa
Burton, Ebbie Forceman
Burton, Marie
Burton, Wayne “Buzzin’”
Bush, Clarence
Bush, William
Bushell, Garvin
Butler, Eddie
Butler, Everett
Butler, Gus
Butler, Leona
Butler, Trixie (Trixie Colquitt)
Butler, Willie
buzzing. See dances
Caffey, C. H.
Cahill, Marie
Cailloux, H. G.
Cain, Mamie
cake walk. See dances
Calicott, Joe
California Eagle
Callens, Henry C.
Campbell, Arthur
Campbell, Willie
“canned music”
Cantata of Queen Esther
“Captain Bogus of the Jim Crow Regiment”
Carr, Dora
Carr, Ella
Carroll, Albert
Carroll, Billy Palm
Carroll, Minnie
Carter, Alice Leslie
Carter, Josephine
Carter, Paul
Cashin, James E.
Castle, Irene
Castle, Vernon
Chambers, James
Chapman, Lelia
Chappelle, Pat
Chappelle, Thomas
Charleston Steppers
Cheatham, Billy
Cheri, William
Chester Amusement Company
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Broad Ax
Chicago Defender
“Chinese Jungles, The”
Christian, Buddy
Church, Robert R.
Cissel, Clarence (Cissel and Mines)
Clarence Bush’s Ragtime Opera Company
Clarence Williams’s Blue Five
Clark, Dick
Clark, Eugene
Clark, James
Clark, Joe, Jr.
Clark, Joe, Sr.
Clark, P. C.
Clark, Robert
Clef Club Symphony Orchestra
Clemmons Brothers
Clifford Hayes’s Louisville Jug Band
clog dance. See dances
Cobb, Gene
Cohen, Abraham
Cole, Robert “Bob”
Coleman, George
Coleman, Ruth
Collie, John M.
Collins, Len
Collins, Sam
Colored Actors Union
Colored Aristocracy Minstrels
Colored Consolidated Vaudeville Exchange
“colored folks’ opera”
“Colored Sporting Life”
Columbia Burlesque Wheel
Columbia Records
Community Music Store (Chicago)
Compton, Glover
Coney Island Minstrels
Connelly, James
Consolidated Talking Machine Company
Consolidated Theatrical and Musical Exchange
Cook, Annie Bell
Cook, C. C.
Cook, Irene
Cook, Will Marion
Cooper, Jimmie
Cooper, John W.
Copeland, Martha
copyright
“Cotton Brokers”
Cottrell, Louis
Cottrell, Sallie
country blues guitar
Cox, Annie Mae
Cox, Baby
Cox, Ida
Cox, Jimmie
Cox, Magnolia
Cox, Robbie Lee. See Peoples, Robbie
Craddock, J. W.
Crampton, Pauline
Crampton, Walter
Crawford, C. L.
Crawford, Pearl
Crawford, Virginia. See Liston, Virginia
Creole Burlesque Company
Creole Nightingales Company
Crippen, Katie
Criswell, Ora (Criswell and Bailey); blackface; “Bolivia from Possum Trot”; with Butler “String Beans” May; “Criswell Blues”; death; early career; with Laura Bailey; reputation; reviews
Crosby, Goldie
Crosby, Harry
Crosby, James
Crosby, Margie
Crosby, Odessa
Crosby, Oma
Cross, Danford
Cross, Dave
Cross, Ulysses E.
Crouch, Stanley
Crow Jane
“Crow Jane Reception, The”
Crowd, Frank
Cuba, African American performers in
“Cuban Queen, The”
Cummings, E. L.
“Cyclops & Cyclo”
Daddy Stovepipe
Daley, Ed E.
Dallas Journal
Dallas String Band
dances: Back Step; Buck; Buck and Wing; Buzzing; Cake Walk; Clog; Eagle Rock; “Eccentric Dancing”; Grizzly Bear; Hula (Honolulu Dance); Jennie Cooler; Pas Ma La; Philippine Dance; Pigeon Wing; Sailor’s Hornpipe; Shimmee; Sifting Sand; Suey; Tango; Turkey Trot; Walking the Dog
“Dancing Cafe, The”
Dandy Dixie Minstrels
Daniels, Ed
Daniels, Julius
Daniels, Lyons
Darktown Journal, The
Davenport, Charles “Cow Cow”
Davenport, Willard
Davis, Abner
Davis, Amon
Davis, Benzonine
Davis, Ed
Davis, Emmet
Davis, George
Davis and Hayes
Dayley, Ed
“Deacon Green on the Picnic Ground”
Dean Music Publishing Company (Chicago)
“Death of Lovie Joe, The”
Decatur Street, Atlanta
Decca Records
Deceived Wife, The
Delaney, Mattie
Delaney, Pete
Delisle, J. B.
Dempsey, Ollie
Dennis, John W.
Deo, Virgie
DeVine, Vida
“Dick Turpin, the Outlaw”
Dickerson, Dan
Dickson, Pearl
Dockstader, Lew
“Dollar Bill”
“Domestic Entanglement”
Donaldson, R. S. “Bob”
Dorsey, Mattie
Dorsey, Thomas A. “Georgia Tom”
Dorsey, William H.
Dotson, J. I.
Douglass, Charles H.
Douglass Club
Douglass Hotel (Macon)
Down in Dixie Minstrels
Doyle, Frank Q.
Dr. Beans From Boston
“Dr. Bill from Louisville”
Drake, Henry
Drake and Walker Revue
Drew, Bonnie Bell
Dudley, E. B.
Dudley, Sherman H.
Dudley’s Smart Set (S. H. Dudley). See Smart Set companies
Dukes, Alexander
Duncan, Clarence “Kid”
Dunlop, Ora
Dunn, Johnnie
Dunn, Sarah. See Martin, Sarah
Dupree, Reese
Durand, Billy
E. B. Dudley Song Bureau (Louisville)
Eagle Rock. See dances
Earthquake, Billy
“eccentric dancing.” See dances
Ed Lee’s Creole Belles Company
“Educational of Ignorance”
Edwards, Hapel
Edwards, Jodie “Butterbeans” (Edwards and Edwards, Butterbeans and Susie)
Edwards, Susie Hawthorne (Edwards and Edwards, Butterbeans and Susie)
Elder, Maude
Eldridge, Ruth
“Elgin Movements” (as metaphor)
“Eliza Scandals”
Ellick, Francis (Murphy and Francis)
Elliott, Eddie Foy
Elliott, Ernest
Ellis, Madame
Ellison, Ralph
Elmore, Irene
Emancipator
Embry, John
Emmett, Fritz K.
English, Dave
Enterprise Cornet Band
“Ethiopian minstrelsy”
Ethiopian Quartet
Europe, James Reese
Evans, David
Evans, Sam
Fairchild, Andrew (“Fatchild,” “Fat Child”)
Falk, Freddie “Sardines”
Fernandina, Florida
“Filipino Misfit, A”
Finley, T. S.
Fisher, Cora Glenn
Fisher, “Baby” Floyd (Seals and Fisher)
Fisher, Kate
Fisher, Lonnie
Fletcher, Clinton “Dusty”
Fletcher Henderson’s Jazz Masters
Florida Blossom Minstrel Company
Floyd, Chink
Floyd, Elmore
Floyd, Estelle
Flynn, Johnny
Folks, Freddie
Ford, Ed
Foster, E. C.
Foster, Garley
Foster, S. B.
Foster, William “Juli Jones, Jr.”
Foster Music Company (Chicago)
Foster Photo Play Company (Chicago)
“Four Hundred Ball, The”
“4-11-44”
Fowler, William
Foxy Quiller
Frank H. Young’s Minstrels
Frazier, Jake
Frederick, Emma
Freeman, George
Freeman-Harper Muse Stock Company
From a Southern Porch (Scarborough)
Fuller, Blind Boy
G. W. Allen’s Troubadours
Gaines, Ella
Gales and Johnson
Galveston, Texas
“Gambling King, The”
Gardner, Sam
Garnes, Antoinette
Gaston, Gallie D.
Gaston & Gaston
Gayoso Street, Memphis
gender impersonations
General Phonograph Corporation
George Lewis Stock Company
George Stamper’s “Dixie Revue”
Georgia Campers
Georgia Sunbeams Company
Gertrude, John
Ghost in the Pawn Shop
Gibson, Cleo
Gibson, Ray “Pork Chops”
Gilhams, G.
Gillam, Bessie (Gilliam)
Gilliam, Tenia
Gilliard, Amos
Gillick, William E.
Gilpin, Charles
“Gimme My Money”
Girl from Dixie, The
Glenn, Buddie
Glenn, Willie
Glinn, Lillian
Glover, John
Glover, Willie
Go Get It
Goats, The
Godfrey, “Cry Baby”
Going to War
Golden, Tom
Golden Gate Quartet
Goldman, Lawrence
Goldman & Wolf Music Company
Golpin, Joe
Gonzell White Revue
Good Morning Blues (Basie)
Goodloe, Ella Hoke (Hope)
Goodloe, John
Gordon, Charles
Grady, Alfred A.
Graham, Madam L.
Graham, Mose “Two Story Mose”
Graham, Pearl
Granger, Leon
Grant, Leola “Coot”
Granville, Charles
Gray, Gilda
Gray, Sam H.
Great Depression
Greathouse, Earl A.
Green, Eddie
Green, J. Ed
Green, Jeanette Murphy
Green, John “Johnny”
Green, Raymond
Greenfield, Elizabeth Taylor
Greenwood, Mississippi
Gresham, Leroy “Kike”
Griffin, Emma (The Griffin Sisters)
Griffin, Mabel (The Griffin Sisters)
Griffin, Tommy
Grizzly Bear. See dances
Gross, Etta
guitar
Guy, Buddy
Hall, Carrie
Hall, Lew
Hall, Ollie
Hall, Willie
Hall’s Ragtime Opera Company
“Ham and Eggs in Africa”
Hambone Jones Company
Hamilton, James
Handy, W. C. (Handy’s Orchestra)
Hanen, R. T.
Happy Days
Hardin, Ed
Harding, Charles O.
“Harlem Frolics” Company
Harlem Renaissance
harmonica (mouth organ)
Harney, Ben
Harney, Maylon
Harney, Richard
Harper, Hamp
Harper, Leonard
Harrington, John “Hamtree”
Harris, Ada
Harris, Estelle (Stella, Estella); with Billy King Stock Company; death; health; Jass/Jaz/Jazz Band; male impersonations; marriage/working with Billy B. Johnson; movies; piano playing; recordings; reviews; stage manager; tenure at Savoy Theater; with William Benton Overstreet
Harris, Florence
Harris, Hattie
Harris, Matt
Harris, O. J.
Harris, William
Harrison, Daphne Duval
“Harvest Days in Musicville”
Hawk, C. E.
Hawkins, Buddy Boy
Hawkins, Charles
Hayes, Bob
Hayes, Thayman
Haywood, John C.
Head, Johnny
Hegamin, Lucille
Hegamin, William
Hello 1919
Helm, George
Henderson, Beulah Washington
Henderson, Edmonia
Henderson, Fletcher
Henderson, Slim
Henderson, William H. “Billy”
Henderson Smith’s Fourteen Black Hussars
Henderson’s Tennessee Troubadours
Hendon, Frank
Henry, Lew
Henry, Waymon “Sloppy”
Herndon, Coy
Heywood, Eddie, Sr.
Hi Henry Barnes Trio
Higgins, Billy
Hightower, Charles
Hightower, Lottie
Hightower, Willie
Hill, Bertha Chippie
Hill, Charles A.
Hill, Ed
Hill, J. Leubrie
Hill, Josephine
Hill Sisters
Hines, Florence
His Eye Is on the Sparrow (Waters)
His Honor the Barber
Hoffman, Robert
Hogan, Ernest
Holden, F. C.
Holland, Lurline
Holmes, Ernest
Holmes, Winston
Holt, Anna
Hope, Boots
Horn, Jessie May
Hot Feet
Hottest Coon in Dixie No. 2
Company
Hound Head Henry
Houston, Alfred “Tick”
Houston, Texas
“How Records Are Made”
“How to Get a Job”
Howard, Nettie
Howard, R. “Kegg”/“Caggie”
Howe, Arthur “Happy”
Howe, Beatrice
Howell, Jimmie
Howell, Peg Leg
Howell, Violette
Hoyt, Grace
Hudson, Ethel
Hughes, Alma
hula. See dances
Hunn, Ben
Hunt, Hi Henry
Hunter, Alberta
Huntley, Otis
Hury, H. J.
Ideal Players
“In Cripple Creek”
In Dahomey
“In the Hands of the Law”
“In the Hills”
Indiana Vaudeville Company
Indianapolis Freeman
Irvis, Charlie
Irwin, May
Irwin & Irwin
Isham’s Octoroons
“It Takes a Good Man to Do That”
Itson, Frank
J. Kapp Company
Jack, Sam T.
Jackson, Adell
Jackson, Hardtrack
Jackson, James Albert “Billboard”
Jackson, Jim
Jackson, Munroe Moe
Jackson, “Papa” Charlie
Jackson, Pearl
Jackson, Remwell
Jackson, Tony
Jackson, Willie
Jacksonville, Florida
Jacoby, Mitchell
James, I. W. “Dad”
James, Seymour (Seymour and Jeanette)
James, Skip
James, Willis Laurence
“Jasper’s Dream in the Pits of Hell”
Jaxon, Frankie “Half Pint” (Little Frankie Jackson)
Jazz Dance (Stearns)
“Jealous Woman, The”
Jefferson, Blind Lemon
Jefferson, Harry
Jefferson, Zenobia
Jenkins, Daddy
Jenkins, Dorothy
Jenkins, Hezekiah
Jennie Cooler. See dances
Jimmie Cooper’s Beauty Review
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Jines, Henry “Gang”
Joe Anderson’s Klondyke String Band
Joe Jordan’s Orchestra
Joel, L. D.
John Eason’s Annex Band
Johns, Irvin
Johnson, Billy
Johnson, Elnora
Johnson, Eloise
Johnson, Elvira
Johnson, Estelle. See Harris, Estelle
Johnson, Guy B.
Johnson, Ike
Johnson, J. C.
Johnson, James P.
Johnson, Joe
Johnson, Lew
Johnson, Lonnie
Johnson, Mamie
Johnson, Mattie
Johnson, Robert
Johnson, Rosamond
Johnson, Susie. See Too Sweet, Lula (Lulu)
Johnson, Theodore
Johnson, Tillie
Johnson, Zudora
Johnson and Bluford
Johnson and Reid
Johnson Operatic Cake Walkers and Museum
Johnson-Fisher Stock Company
Jolly Hendersons, The
Jones, Archie
Jones, Baby Annie
Jones, Bill
Jones, Billy E.
Jones, C. A.
Jones, Clayborne
Jones, Coley
Jones, David
Jones, Estelle
Jones, “Hambone”
Jones, Henry “Teenan”
Jones, Joseph “Jonesy”
Jones, Little Hat
Jones, Minnie
Jones, Richard M.
Jones, Slim
Jones, Walter
Jordan, Charley
Jordan, Ethalene
Jordan, Howard
Jordan, Joe
“Josephine Spiller’s Wedding”
Journal of American Folklore
Joyner, B. B. “Bee”
Kansas City Call
Keane, Lew
Keith Vaudeville Theater Circuit
Keith-Albee Office
Kelley, H. Alf
Kelley, Howard
Kelly, Dude
Kelly, Georgia
Kelly, Kid
Kennedy, Will Goff
Kenner, Lew (Kenner and Lewis)
Kenner and Lewis Amusement Company
Kernion, Mildred
Kersands, Billy
Kersands, Louise
Kewley, Fred
Kidnapping Case, The
Kimball, Henry
Kimbrough, Lena
Kimbrough, Sylvester
Kincade, Ernest
King, B. B.
King, Billy
King, Hattie McIntosh
King, Maggie
King and Bush’s Minstrels
King and Simms’s Minstrels
Kinnane, Catherine
Kinnane, James
Kinnane, Thomas (brother of James Kinnane)
Kinnane, Thomas (father of James Kinnane)
Kirk, Frank
“Kit Carson, the Female Detective”
Klein, Martin
Knox, Elwood
L. D. Joel’s Atlanta Players
Labormen’s Social Club
“Lady Barber Shop, The”
“Lady Liz”
Lagman, Charles
LaGuardia, Fiorello
Landrus, Eugene
Lane, Tom
Langston, Tony
Lankford, Edward
Larkins, Harry
Larkins, Ida
LaRose, Adam
Lattimore, J. A. C.
Leach, Eva
Leading Lady Cook, A
Ledbetter, Huddie (Leadbelly)
Lee, E. D. “Ed”
Lee, Ford
Lee, John
Lee, Johnnie
Lee, Lark
Lee, Locke
Lee & Moore
Leggett, Lena
Leggins, Gene. See Liggins, Eugene
Leggs, Tressie
Leonard, W. H.
Leslie, Lew
Levi, E. Deb
Levy, Joe
Lew Hall’s Ragtime Opera Company
Lewis, Billy E.
Lewis, Cary B.
Lewis, Furry
Lewis, John E. (Kenner and Lewis)
Lewis, Lockwood
Lewis, Meade Lux
Lewis, Nettie (Compton)
Lewis, Viola
Lewis, Will
Life of Bridge Street
Liggins, Eugene
Lightfoot, Peg
Lightning Express Excursion
Lillison, Edgar
Lipscomb, Mance
Liston, Dave
Liston, Virginia Crawford; early life/career; Eliza Scandals; New Star Casino contest; partnership with “Hambone” Jones; recordings; reviews/critiques; with Sam Gray
Little Creole Pet
Little Henry. See Woods, W. F. “Johnnie”
Lockhardt, Ada
Lockhart, Lena
Lockhart, Tom
Logan, Laura
Logan, Tom
Long, Leon
Lorraine, Margie
Lousiana Weekly
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville Courier-Journal
Louisville Herald
Louisville Leader
Love, Gussie (Love and Love)
Love, Harry
Love, Kid (H. Kidd Love, Love and Love, Henry Warren)
Lowe, Carrie
Lowery, P. G.
Lowery, Vance
Lucas, Smithy
Lyles, Aubrey (Miller and Lyles)
Lyric Theater Stock Company
Mack, Alura
Macon, Georgia
Macon News
Macon Telegraph
“Macon’s Orgy”
Made in Harlem Company
Mahara’s Minstrels
Mahoney, Jim
Mahoney’s Mobile Minstrels
Mamie Smith’s Jazz Hounds
Mamma’s Baby Boy
Man from Bam, The
Managers and Performers’ Co-Operative Circuit (“M&P”)
Manetta, Manuel
Manhattan Quartet
Mann, Mossa
Manuel, C. E.
“Mariah”
Markham, Dewey “Pigmeat”
Markham’s Orchestra (Shreveport)
“Married Life”
Married Man’s Troubles, A
Marshall, Jimmie
Marshall, Robert
Marshall, Sonny
Martell, Harry
Martin, Carl
Martin, Daisy
Martin, Joseph
Martin, Sarah (Sara)
Mason, John H.
Massey, Verner
Master Jimmie
Matrimonial Agency, The
Matthews, Artie
Matthews, Richard J.
Matthews, Richard R., Jr.
Matthews, William
May, Blanche
May, Butler, Sr.
May, Butler “String Beans” (May and May); attacking Frank Montgomery; Beans and Benbow’s Big Vaudeville Review; death; early life; “Elgin Movements”; legacy; pianologue; reviews; songwriting
May, Laura Robinson
May, Sweetie Matthews (May and May)
McClain, Billy
McClain, Cordelia
McClain, Florence
McCoy, Ethel
McCoy, Joe
McCoy, Kid
McCoy, Viola
McDonald, Gertrude
McDonald and Leggett
McGarr, Jules
McGee, Juanita
McGill, H. P. “Buddy”
McGinty, Artie Belle
McIntosh, Tom
McKenzie, Frank
McLaurin, Billie
McMillan, Allan
McMurray, Joseph A.
McNeil, John (McNeil and McNeil)
McNeil, Rhoda (McNeil and McNeil)
McPheeters, James
McQuillen, Alice
McTell, Blind Willie
Means, Effie
medicine shows
Melville, Rose
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Memphis Jug Band
Memphis Slim
Meritt Records
Merry Howards
Meyers, Anna
Michaels, Dan
Midnight Bells Quartette
midnight frolics
Mikell, E. Francis
Miller, Flournoy (Miller and Lyles)
Miller, Irvin C.
Miller, J. J.
Miller, J. M. “Doc”
Miller, James
Miller, Sodarisa
Millican’s Plantation Minstrels
Mills, Billy
Mills, Florence
Mines, Augusta
Minor, Coleman L.
“Miss Hannah from Savannah”
“Miss Mandy’s Moonlight Festival”
Mississippi Moaners
Mitchell, Abbie
Mitchell, Dennis
Mitchell, George
Mitchell, Joseph
Mitchell, Lelia
Mitchell, Lucy
Mitchell, Walter (cornet)
Mitchell, Walter (tuba and doublebass)
Mizell, Tenia
Moncrief, A. A.
Montana Jack and Arizona Dick
Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery, Frank (Montgomery and McClain)
Montgomery, Little Brother
Montgomery Times
Moody, Julia
Mooney, Etta
“Moonlight Frolic in Louisiana, A”
Moore, Allen “Chintz”
Moore, Ella B.
Moore, Ferdinand T.
Moore, Fred R.
Moore, Hester
Moore, James “Frosty”
Moore, Kid Prince
Moore, Minnie C.
Moore, Poney
Mores, J. Francis
Moret, George
Morris, Tom
Morton, Edgar
Morton, Eleanor Wilson
Morton, Ferd “Jelly Roll”
Morton, Rosa
Moss, Buddy
Moten, Bennie
Moten, Buster
Mother-in-Law’s Disposition, The
Motts, Robert T.
movies
Movietone
Mr. Lode of Koal
“Mr. Sardines From Sardines, Fla.”
Mullican, Aubrey “Moon”
Murphy, Bert (Murphy and Francis)
Muse, Camanche
Muse, Clarence
Muse, Elizabeth
Musicians Union, Local
Mutual Amusement Company (Chicago)
“My Chocolate Girl”
“My Friend”
Myers, William J.
Naimoa, Sam
Nashville Globe
Nashville Students
National Association of Negro Musicians
Negro Business League
Negro Workaday Songs (Odum and Johnson)
“Neighbors”
Nelson, Aaron
Nesbitt, Joseph
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans Item
New York Age
New York, New York
New York Clipper
New York Times
Newbern, Hambone Willie
Newsome, Fred (Jimmy Dick)
Nicholby, John A.
Niles, Abbe
Nix, Molissi
Norfolk Jazz Quartet
Norfolk Journal and Guide
Nunn, William G.
Oakwood Cemetery (Montgomery)
“O’Brien in Coon Town”
O’Brien’s Famous Georgia Minstrels
O’Connor, George
Odum, Howard
OKeh Record Company
“Old Nolan Gold Mine, The”
Oliver, Bessie
Oliver, Edith
Oliver, King
Oliver Scott’s Refined Minstrels
Olney, Clyde
O’Neal, Charles
Opportunity
Original Jazz Hounds (Johnny Dunn)
Original Jazz Hounds (Perry Bradford)
Orpheum Vaudeville Circuit
Ory, Kid
Osborne, James
Other Fellow, The
O’Toole, Martin J.
“Out of the Jungles, or What Happened to Him? Did He Get Out Alive?”
Overstreet, William Benton
Owens, Billy
Owens, Henry
Owens, Will
Owsley, Tim
Pace, Harry H.
Pace & Handy Music Publishing Company
Page, John
Palao, Joseph
Pantages Circuit
Paramount and Lasky corporation
Paramount Record Company
Paris, Amy
Park, C. W.
Parker, Mattie
Parker, Shorty Bob
Parker, Tommy
Park-Tolliver Musical Comedy Company (C. W. Park)
Park’s Colored Aristocrats/Smart Set. See Smart Set companies
Pat Chappelle’s Imperial Colored Minstrels
Pathe Record Company
Paul Banks Kansas City Trio
Paul Carter’s Stock Company
Payne, Arthur “Strut”
Payne, Mamie
Payne, Rosa
Payton, Lew (Peyton)
Payton, William
Peat, Ed F.
Peer, Ralph
Pekin Trio
Pellebon, Abbie
Pellebon, Andy
Pellebon, Carrie
Pellebon, Dinky
Pellebon, Sadie
Peoples, Robbie Lee Cox “Baby Benbow”
“Percilla Johnson’s Wedding”
Perdue, David
Perrin, Sidney
Perry, Sadie
Perry, Willie. See Too Sweet, Willie
Perry Bradford Music Publishing Company
Perry Bradford’s Mean Four
Perryman, Rufus “Speckled Red”
Pervine, Edna
“Peter Gray”
Pettis, Arthur
Pewee, Charles
Pewee, Sadie
Peyton, Dave
Philippine dance. See dances
Phoenix Athletic Club
pianologue
Pierre, Anatole
pigeon wing. See dances
Pinkard, Maceo
Pittsburgh Courier
Plant Juice Medicine Company
Plantation Club (New York)
Plantation Five Harmonizers
Plantation Revue
Popirro, George
Porter, Buster
Porter, Chicita
Porter, John
Porter, Pete
Porter, Willie
Porter and Porter
Powell, Albert
Powell, Clarence
Powers, Ollie
“Pressing Club, The”
Price, Edward C. (The Jolly Prices)
Price, Kate
Price, Ludell (The Jolly Prices)
Price, Madame
Price, Sarah
“Prince Bumpaka”
Princess Rajah
Pugh and Pugh
“Punch and Judy”
Put and Take
Queen, John
Rabbit’s Foot Minstrels (A Rabbit’s Foot)
Race records
radio broadcasting
“Railroad Jack”
Rainey, Gertrude “Ma” (Rainey and Rainey); collaboration with Bessie Smith; early career; Madam Rainey’s Southern Beauty Company; recordings; reviews/critiques
Rainey, William “Pa” (Rainey and Rainey)
Rainey Trio
Ransom, James
Ransom, May
“Rapid Transit”
Rarin’ to Go
record stores
Red Moon, The
Reed, Frank S.
Reed, Jerry
Reeves, Billy
Reeves, George
Reevin, Sam E.
“Rehearsing His Part”
Reid, J. P.
Reid, Walter James
Reid, Will
Reyno Comedians
Rhone, George B.
Rialto Music House (Chicago)
“Rich and Poor Girls, The”
Richard M. Jones’s Jazz Wizards
Richards and Pringle’s Georgia Minstrels
Richardson, Inez
Richmond Planet
Riggins, Son
Ringgold, Muriel
Roberts, C. B.
Roberts, Dan
Roberts, Lizzie
Roberts, Lucky
Robertson, Alvin “Zoo”
Robichaux, John
Robichaux’s Orchestra (New Orleans)
Robinson, C. R.
Robinson, Eddie “Rabbit”
Robinson, J. M.
Robinson, Mabel
Robinson, Mollie Clark
Robinson, Rennell
Robinson, Rob
Robinson, Sam
Robinson, William
Rogers, Alex
Rogers, Clarence
Rogers, Terry C.
Ross, A. W.
Rossiter, Will
Roth, C. C.
Roth, Rastus
Ruby Theater Stock Company
Rufus Rastus
Rufus Rastus In Dixie Company
Rush, Roy
Rush, Willie
Rusco and Holland’s Big Minstrel Festival
Russell, Bob
Russell, Raymond
Russell, Sylvester
Russell-Owens Stock Company
Rye, Howard
S. H. Dudley Circuit
Sailor’s Hornpipe. See dances
Sam T. Jack’s Creole Company
Sandifer, Joe
Sane, Dan
Santos & Artigas
Saunders, Gertrude
Savage, J. L.
Savannah, Georgia
Savannah Electric Company
Savannah Tribune
Savoy Stock Company
“Saw Dust Bill”
Scales, N.C.
Scarborough, Dorothy
Schaffer, Dave
Schriner, Charles C.
Scott, Arthur
Scott, Dinah
Scott, Gertrude
Scott, Jim
Scott, Maud
Scott, Tom
Scott, Will
Seals, Baby (H. Franklin Seals, Seals and Fisher); Baby F. Seals Bunch of Fun Promoters; “Baby Seals Blues”; cartoons; commentary; death; reviews/critiques
Seminole Syncopators
7-11 Burlesque Company
Seymour, W. A.
Seymour and Jeanette
Shepherd, Lucy
Shimmee. See dances
“Shine and the Titanic”
Shook, Ben
Shuffle Along
“Shuffle Along Review”
“Shufflin’ Sam” company
Silas Green from New Orleans (Silas Green Minstrels)
“Silver Shower”
Simmons, Dick
Simmons, Paul
Simons, Lum
Simpson, Ed
Simpson, “Happy-Go-Lucky”
Simpson, Royal
Sims, Sank
“Sis Hopkins” (“Black Sis Hopkins”)
Sissle, Noble
Skidmore, Will E.
Slade, Walter
Smart Set companies: Dudley’s Smart Set (S. H. Dudley); Park’s Colored Aristocrats/Smart Set (C. W. Park); Tolliver’s Smart Set/Big Show (Alexander Tolliver); Whitney’s Smart Set (Salem Tutt Whitney and J. Homer Tutt)
Smarter Set Company (Salem Tutt Whitney and J. Homer Tutt)
Smiley, Alberta
Smiley, Robert
Smith, Albert
Smith, Bessie; Bessie Smith Review; collaboration with Raineys; early career; Harlem Frolics Revue; inspirations; partnership with Wayne Burton; recordings; reviews
Smith, Carrie
Smith, Chris
Smith, Clara
Smith, Clarence
Smith, Hannibal
Smith, Henderson
Smith, Ivy
Smith, J. W.
Smith, James
Smith, Joe
Smith, John
Smith, Laura; Brown Skin Jazzers; death; early life/career; health; Laura Smith and her Ginger Pep Workers; with Mattie Dorsey; movie; recordings; reviews/critiques; Sarah Butler’s Old Time Southern Singers
Smith, Lehman
Smith, Lula
Smith, Mamie
Smith, Speedy
Smith, Trixie (Adella J. Smith); Black Sis Hopkins; blackface; daughter’s death; death; early career; Manhattan Casino contest; recording; reviews/critiques; “Trixie’s Blues”
Smith, W. H.
Smith, Walter
Smith, Will
Smith, William B.
Snow, Jay Gould
Snow, John V.
song parodies
South Before the War Company
Southern Consolidated Vaudeville Circuit
Southern Folklore Quarterly
Southern Vaudeville Circuit
Spain, Ruth
Spand, Charlie
Spaulding, Mada
Spikes Brothers (Johnny and Reb)
Spriggins, E. Belfield
Springer, Hazel
Spruell, Freddie
Stafford, Mary
Stamps, Eddie
Starr, Alfred
State Street, Chicago (“The Dehomian Stroll,” “The Stroll”)
Stearns, Jean
Stearns, Marshall
Stein, Ben
Stein, Louis
Stevens, Louise
Stewart & Watkins
Stewart-Baxter, Derrick
Stiles, Josephine
Still, William Grant
Stinnette, Juanita (Moana)
Stokes, Moses
“Stolen Child, The”
Stone, E. S.
Straine, Doc
Straine, Mary
Stranded Minstrel Show, A
Styles, W. J.
Sudler, Joe
Suey. See dances
Sulis, Fred
Sullivan, Ollie
Sunny South Minstrels
Sunshine Orchestra
Sunshine Records
Swanagan, Harry
Sweatman, Wilbur
Synco-Jazzers
tabloid (tab) show
Tall, George
Tampa, Florida
Tampa Morning Tribune
tango. See dances
Tanguay, Eva
Tartt, M. Magdalene (Lawrence) “The Black Swan”
Taylor, Cornelius
Taylor, Edward “Uncle Ned”
Taylor, Eva
Taylor, Jasper
Taylor, Jeanette (Bradford and Jeanette, Bradford and Bradford, Seymour and Jeanette)
Taylor, Lovie
Taylor, Nettie
Taylor, Ruby
Taylor, Stella
Taylor and Taylor
Teasley, Wiley
Temple, George W.
Tenenbaum, Harry
Terry, Frank
Terry, Sonny
Theard, Sam
Theater Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.)
theater pit bands
They All Played Ragtime (Blesh and Janis)
Thomas, Bonnie Belle
Thomas, D. Ireland
Thomas, George W.
Thomas, Henry
Thomas, Jessie (blues recording artist)
Thomas, Jessie (male impersonator)
Thomas, John P.
Thomas, William
Thomas, William Cole (Will Cole)
Thompson, Blanche
Thompson, Edward
Thompson, Kelly
Thompson, R. W.
Thompson, Raleigh W.
Thompson, U. S. “Slow Kid”
Thornton, Emma
Thorpe, Funny
Tiffany, O. F.
Tin Pan Alley
Tio, Lorenzo
Titus, Bert
Tivoli Music Hall stock company
“Tiz”
Tolbutt, H. W.
Tolliver, Alexander. See Smart Set companies: Tolliver’s Smart Set/Big Show
Tolliver, Jessie
Tolliver, Mabel
Tolliver’s Big Show/Smart Set. See Smart Set companies
Too Sweet, Lula (Lulu) (Too Sweets, Two Sweets)
Too Sweet, Willie (Too Sweets, Two Sweets)
Tramps Social Club
Tribble, Andrew
Trip to Savannah, A
Tri-State Circuit
“Trixie, the Pride of the Ranch”
Troy, Henry
Tucker, J. B.
Tucker, Sophie
Tunnah, Renton
turkey trot. See dances
Turpin, Charlie
Turpin, Tom
Tutt, J. Homer
“Two African Princes”
Two Weavers, The
Tyers, Will H.
Tyus, Charles
Tyus, Effie
Uncle Jasper’s Home
“Under the Harvest Moon”
underpayment of musicians/actors
Undertaker’s Daughter, The
“Unhappy Pair, An”
United Vaudeville Circuit
“up-to-date coon songs”
Variety
Vendome Music Shop (Chicago)
ventriloquists
Victor Recording Company
Vincson, Walter
Vitaphone
vocal quartets
Vocalion Records
Vodery, Will
W. A. Seymour’s Black 400 Minstrels
W. C. Handy’s Memphis Blues Band
Walder, Woodie
Walker, Aida Overton
Walker, Billy
Walker, Ed
Walker, Frank B.
“Walking Brought Me Here”
walking the dog. See dances
Wallace, Sippie
Waller, Fats
Walsh, Dock
Walter Rector’s Darktown Strutters
Walton, Lester
Walton-Pace Producing Company
Warbington, Garnett
Ward, Fredrika
Warley, William
“Wash Day in Coon Town”
Washboard Sam
Washington, Dorothy
Washington, Telfair
Wastell, L. W.
Waters, Ethel
Watson, George
Watts, Jim
Watts, Joseph (Watts Brothers)
Watts, Lew (Watts Brothers)
Watts and Willis’s Darktown Strutters
Weaver, Eula Mae (The Two Weavers)
Weaver, Julius J. (The Two Weavers)
Weaver, Sylvester
Weaver Brothers’ Mandolin Sextet
Webb, Richard
Wells, Al
Wendling, Pete
West, William
western dramas
Whallen, John H.
Wheeler, Lillian
“Where the Trail Ends in Mexico”
Whidby, Lula
Whipper, Leigh
White, Alf
White, Evelyn
White, Gonzell
White, Joe
White, Leroy
White, Lizzie
White, Millard
White, Stella
White, Zackaria
Whitehead, Sadie
Whitman, Alberta
Whitman, Essie
Whitman, Mabel
Whitman, Mattie Dorsey. See Dorsey, Mattie
Whitman Sisters
Whitney, Salem Tutt
Whitney’s Smart Set (Salem Tut Whitney and J. Homer Tutt). See Smart Set companies
Wig Wam Quartette
Wiggins, Jack “Ginger”
Wiggins, Lena
Wiley, Arnold
Wiley, Irene
Wilkson, George
Will Dorsey’s “Song Shop”
Williams, Alberta
Williams, Bert
Williams, Bobby
Williams, Charles
Williams, Clarence
Williams, George (drummer)
Williams, George (George Williams and Bessie Brown)
Williams, George “Rubberlegs”
Williams, Gertrude
Williams, Hank
Williams, Harold
Williams, Henry
Williams, John H. “Blue Steel”
Williams, Johnnie
Williams, Leona (Leonce Lazzo)
Williams, Lewis
Williams, Mary Lou
Williams, Minnie
Williams, Mose
Williams, Percy
Williams, Philip
Williams, Ray
Williams, Spencer
Williams, Walter
Williams, Webster
Williams and Walker (Bert Williams and George Walker)
Wilson, Charles
Wilson, Dora
Wilson, Edith
Wilson, Kid Wesley “Sox”
Wilson, Lena
Wilson, Orlandus
Winston Holmes Music Company
Wise, Fanny
Wood, Carl
Wood, Charles
Woodard, H.
Woodard, Jennie
Wooden’s Bon Tons (Henry and Loretta Wooden)
Woods, Clarence
Woods, John W. F. “Johnnie”/“Johnny” (Johnnie Woods and Little Henry)
Woods, Pearl
Woods, Tommy
Woods, William H.
Work, John, III
World Beaters Company
Worthy, Peter
Wright, Charles (Charles W. Bebee, “Bee Bee”)
Wright, George
Wright, Lamar
Wright, Vivian
Wyer, J. Paul
Yankee Robinson’s Circus
yodeling
Young, Billie
Young, Lillie
Young, Tom
Zeek, Billy
Ziegfeld Follies