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African American Radio, WVON, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Chicago Jennifer Searcy Loyola University Chicago, [email protected]
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Loyola eCommons Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 2012 The oiceV of the Negro: African American Radio, WVON, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Chicago Jennifer Searcy Loyola University Chicago, [email protected] Recommended Citation Searcy, Jennifer, "The oV ice of the Negro: African American Radio, WVON, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Chicago" (2012). Dissertations. Paper 688. http://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/688 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Searcy LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO THE VOICE OF THE NEGRO: AFRICAN AMERICAN RADIO, WVON, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN CHICAGO A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PROGRAM IN AMERICAN HISTORY/PUBLIC HISTORY BY JENNIFER SEARCY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS AUGUST 2013 Copyright by Jennifer Searcy, 2013 All rights reserved. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, I would like to thank my dissertation committee for their feedback throughout the research and writing of this dissertation. As the chair, Dr. Christopher Manning provided critical insights and commentary which I hope has not only made me a better historian, but a better writer as well. -
Aint Gonna Study War No More / Down by the Riverside
The Danish Peace Academy 1 Holger Terp: Aint gonna study war no more Ain't gonna study war no more By Holger Terp American gospel, workers- and peace song. Author: Text: Unknown, after 1917. Music: John J. Nolan 1902. Alternative titles: “Ain' go'n' to study war no mo'”, “Ain't gonna grieve my Lord no more”, “Ain't Gwine to Study War No More”, “Down by de Ribberside”, “Down by the River”, “Down by the Riverside”, “Going to Pull My War-Clothes” and “Study war no more” A very old spiritual that was originally known as Study War No More. It started out as a song associated with the slaves’ struggle for freedom, but after the American Civil War (1861-65) it became a very high-spirited peace song for people who were fed up with fighting.1 And the folk singer Pete Seeger notes on the record “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and Other Love Songs”, that: "'Down by the Riverside' is, of course, one of the oldest of the Negro spirituals, coming out of the South in the years following the Civil War."2 But is the song as we know it today really as old as it is claimed without any sources? The earliest printed version of “Ain't gonna study war no more” is from 1918; while the notes to the song were published in 1902 as music to a love song by John J. Nolan.3 1 http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/grovemusic/spirituals,_hymns,_gospel_songs.htm 2 Thanks to Ulf Sandberg, Sweden, for the Pete Seeger quote. -
Aristocrat/Chess Records by Frank Daniels
Aristocrat/Chess Records by Frank Daniels When Aristocrat Records began in early April, 1947, the firm had several partners. The label was going to feature all sorts of musicians – not just pop, or country, or jazz. By September they hired Leonard Chess to help sell their singles, and by the end of the year several of the partners had gone away. The musicians’ union strike in 1948 probably drove some of the others away, so that by 1949 Evelyn Aron and Leonard Chess were basically running the show by themselves. Aron joined Art Spiegel that year in forming American Distributing, and Phil Chess wound up joining Leonard. By spring, 1950, they were preparing for a name change to Chess Records. As if they were foretelling the future, some of the greatest artists on the label were in their blues stable – including the always- noteworthy Muddy Waters, the father of (modern) Chicago blues. Muddy had recorded unreleased material for Columbia and had just released one record for Ballen’s 20th Century label, the B-side of a single. That had been a primitive version of his song, “Mean Red Spider,” a record that would be rerecorded for Aristocrat. As soon as his first Aristocrat single hit (in February, 1948), Muddy was a blues legend. When Aristocrat morphed into Chess, right away he released the song that gave the Rolling Stones their name (7/15/50). Aristocrat Records had plenty of talent on the label, but their blues artists piqued the most interest, and these were the artists that Chess was most interested in promoting. -
According to Chaim Weizmann's
Motal Pol. Motol, Bel. Моталь, [We] had our own house – one storey, with seven rooms and a kitchen some acres of land, chickens, two cows, a vegetable garden, a few – מאָטעלע .Yid fruit trees. So we had a supply of milk, and sometimes butter; we had fruit and vegetables in season; we had enough bread – which my mother baked herself; we had fish, and we had meat once a week – on the Sabbath. And there was always plenty of fresh air. Chaim Weizmann, Trial and Error. The Autobiography, Philadelphia 1949 Hebrew greeting ¶ Motal, the into the Slonim Province, then into the birthplace and childhood home of Lithuania Governorate, and from 1801, it Chaim Weizmann, the first president was made part of the Grodno Province of of Israel, is probably the only town in the Russian Empire. Belarus that has a sign with its name in Hebrew posted by the road leading out of The Jews of Motal ¶ In 1562, town. ¶ The earliest written mention of “a Jewish landlord and tax collector from Motal is found in the documents of the Kobryn Favish Yeskovich,” who leased Lithuanian Metrica from 1422, where the right to collect taxes on merchandise, it was referred to as a private estate in complained to Savostian Druzhylovitski the Principality of Pinsk. In 1520, it was that the ruler of the district did not allow the property of Prince Fyodor Ivanovich him to collect taxes in his town of Motal Yaroslavich, who later donated it to the and in the neighbouring villages. This Orthodox Church of the Assumption of document suggests that Jews collecting the Blessed Virgin Mary in Leszno. -
“Bo Diddley” and “I'm a Man” (1955)
“Bo Diddley” and “I’m a Man” (1955) Added to the National Registry: 2011 Essay by Ed Komara (guest post)* Bo Diddley While waiting in Bo Diddley’s house to conduct an interview for the February 12, 1987 issue of “Rolling Stone,” journalist Kurt Loder noticed a poster. “If You Think Rock and Roll Started With Elvis,” it proclaimed, “You Don’t Know Diddley.” This statement seems exaggerated, but upon listening to Diddley’s April 1955 debut 78 on Checker 814, “Bo Diddley” backed with “I’m A Man,” it becomes apt, perhaps even understated. Bo Diddley (1928-2008) described his own place in music history to Loder. “People wouldn’t even bother with no stuff like ‘Bo Diddley’ and ‘I’m A Man’ and stuff like that ten years earlier [circa 1945] or even a year earlier [1954]. Then Leonard and Phil Chess decided to take a chance, and suddenly a whole different scene, a different kind of music, came in. And that was the beginning of rock and roll.” The composer credit for Checker 814 reads “E. McDaniels,” and there begins the tale. Bo Diddley was born Ellas Otha Bates in McComb, Mississippi on December 30, 1928 to a teenage mother and her local boyfriend. He was raised, however, by his maternal first cousin, Gussie McDaniel, to whom he was taken to Chicago, and given her surname McDaniel. He grew up on the South Side of the city, where he learned violin, trombone and, at age 12, the guitar. Before long, he was playing for change on the local streets. -
Pre-Lesson Reading Chess Set Still Sings the Blues
! ! Pre-Lesson Activity - “Chess Set Still Sings The Blues: Marshall Chess and Chess Records” JUST OVER 50 YEARS AGO, brothers Phil and Leonard Chess, two industrious Polish immigrants in Chicago, tentatively established what would become the most famous blues label in the USA. The impact of the music they released radically shaped the musical landscape of the next two decades. The Chess Story: 1947-1975, a new 15-CD box-set, is a hefty testament to their huge legacy. Marshall Chess, Leonard's son, is a passionate advocate of the label. Describing the box- set today, he admits, "It makes me so proud to be a Chess!" This pride is the result of two intrepid trips made in the first half of the 20th century. Indeed, the very foundations of Chicago's Chess Records were built by two, seemingly quite distinct, groups of people, both of whom were raised in impoverished rural areas far from this dynamic industrial city. In the 1930s and '40s, hundreds of thousands of African-Americans in the Southern states caught the Illinois Central Railway up to Chicago, desperate to escape the "southern hospitality" of the Deep South. Today, Marshall Chess recalls, "A certain kind of temperament came up to Chicago from Mississippi. Mississippi was deep slavery roots. They were living on old plantations. Those places didn't have electricity." Marshall Chess's family in Poland might not have suffered from racism, but they shared similar penniless circumstances to these black Americans. In their Polish village, Leonard Chess and his family had no electricity, heating or running water. -
Extensions of Remarks E1699 EXTENSIONS of REMARKS
October 16, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1699 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF BOY HONORING THE FAYETTE Mr. Speaker, Senator Arlen Specter will be SCOUT TROOP 21, ROCHESTER, MN SPIRITUAL AIRES remembered for the important bipartisan role he played. HON. TIMOTHY J. WALZ HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON I urge my colleagues to join me in the mourning and remembering Senator Arlen OF MINNESOTA OF MISSISSIPPI Specter. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES f Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Tuesday, October 16, 2012 IN RECOGNITION OF THOMAS Mr. WALZ of Minnesota. Mr. Speaker, I ask Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speak- TIGHE the House to join me today in honoring the er, I rise today to honor a Gospel Singers’ 100th anniversary of Boy Scout Troop 21 in Group, The Fayette Spiritual Aires. Rochester, Minnesota. Troop 21 is one of the In 1975, God gave Jimmy Jackson a vision HON. FRANK PALLONE, JR. oldest and hardest working Boy Scout troops to organize a gospel quartet group, which he OF NEW JERSEY in Minnesota. named ‘‘The Fayette Spiritual Aires’’. Through- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Over the years, thousands of young men out the years, this group has touched many Tuesday, October 16, 2012 lives and led many to Christ through its sing- have passed through their program, learning Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to valuable leadership and life skills while also ing ministry. The Fayette Spiritual Aires has been congratulate Mr. Thomas Tighe as he is rec- enjoying outdoor activities and performing ognized by the Kiddie Keep Well Camp on the service projects. -
The Impressions, Circa 1960: Clockwise from Top: Fred Cash, Richard Brooks> Curtis Mayfield, Arthur Brooks, and Sam (Pooden
The Impressions, circa 1960: Clockwise from top: Fred Cash, Richard Brooks> Curtis Mayfield, Arthur Brooks, and Sam (Pooden. Inset: Original lead singer Jerry Butler. PERFORMERS Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions BY J O E M cE W E N from the union of two friends, Jerry Butler and Curtis Mayfield of Chicago, Illinois. The two had sung together in church as adolescents, and had traveled with the Northern Jubilee Gospel Singers and the Traveling Souls Spiritual Church. It was Butler who con vinced his friend Mayfield to leave his own struggling group, the Alfatones, and join him, Sam Gooden, and brothers Richard and Arthur Brooks— the remnants of another strug gling vocal group called the Roosters. According to legend, an impressive performance at Major Lance, Walter Jackson, and Jan Bradley; he also a Chicago fashion show brought the quintet to the at wrote music that seemed to speak for the entire civil tention of Falcon Records, and their debut single was rights movement. A succession of singles that began in recorded shortly thereafter. “For Your 1964 with “Keep On Pushing” and Precious Love” by “The Impressions SELECTED the moody masterpiece “People Get featuring Jerry Butler” (as the label DISCOGRAPHY Ready” stretched through such exu read) was dominated by Butler’s reso berant wellsprings of inspiration as nant baritone lead, while Mayfield’s For Your Precious Love.......................... Impressions “We’re A Winner” and Mayfield solo (July 1958, Falcon-Abner) fragile tenor wailed innocently in the recordings like “(Don’t Worry) If background. Several follow-ups He Will Break Your Heart......................Jerry Butler There’s A Hell Below We’re All Going (October 1960, Veejay) failed, Butler left to pursue a solo ca To Go” and “Move On Up,” placing reer, and the Impressions floundered. -
Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism
Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism Michel Delville is a writer and musician living in Liège, Belgium. He is the author of several books including J.G. Ballard and The American Prose Poem, which won the 1998 SAMLA Studies Book Award. He teaches English and American literatures, as well as comparative literatures, at the University of Liège, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics. He has been playing and composing music since the mid-eighties. His most recently formed rock-jazz band, the Wrong Object, plays the music of Frank Zappa and a few tunes of their own (http://www.wrongobject.be.tf). Andrew Norris is a writer and musician resident in Brussels. He has worked with a number of groups as vocalist and guitarist and has a special weakness for the interface between avant garde poetry and the blues. He teaches English and translation studies in Brussels and is currently writing a book on post-epiphanic style in James Joyce. Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism Michel Delville and Andrew Norris Cambridge published by salt publishing PO Box 937, Great Wilbraham PDO, Cambridge cb1 5jx United Kingdom All rights reserved © Michel Delville and Andrew Norris, 2005 The right of Michel Delville and Andrew Norris to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Salt Publishing. -
Jump Blues, Club Blues, and Roy Brown Rob Bowman
Document generated on 09/27/2021 9:27 p.m. Canadian University Music Review Revue de musique des universités canadiennes Post-World War II Rhythm and Blues: Jump Blues, Club Blues, and Roy Brown Rob Bowman Volume 17, Number 1, 1996 Article abstract The classification of different styles of North American popular music has URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1014691ar often been problematic. This paper investigates some of the music referred to DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1014691ar as rhythm and blues (r & b) in the late 1940s and early 1950s by specifically looking at the works of one of the music's leading practitioners of the time, Roy See table of contents Brown. Brown recorded both jump and club blues between 1947 and 1955, placing fifteen records in the Top 20 of the Billboard rhythm and blues charts. For the purposes of this paper fifty-four of the seventy-four songs that Brown Publisher(s) recorded in this period were analyzed with respect to structure, performing force, performance style, tempo, arrangement, bass lines, approach to the beat, Canadian University Music Society / Société de musique des universités rate of singing, vocal ornamentation, and lyric content and structure. Three canadiennes main subdivisions were found within Brown's repertoire, all connected to social behaviour, namely, dance. In the process, a basic biography of Brown is ISSN provided and his influence on many subsequent rhythm and blues and rock and roll performers is contextualized. 0710-0353 (print) 2291-2436 (digital) Explore this journal Cite this article Bowman, R. (1996). Post-World War II Rhythm and Blues: Jump Blues, Club Blues, and Roy Brown. -
Off the Beaten Track
Off the Beaten Track To have your recording considered for review in Sing Out!, please submit two copies (one for one of our reviewers and one for in- house editorial work, song selection for the magazine and eventual inclusion in the Sing Out! Resource Center, our multimedia, folk-related archive). All recordings received are included in Publication Noted (which follows Off the Beaten Track). Send two copies of your recording, and the appropriate background material, to Sing Out!, P.O. Box 5460 (for shipping: 512 E. Fourth St.), Bethlehem, PA 18015, Attention Off The Beaten Track. Sincere thanks to this issues panel of musical experts: Roger Dietz, Richard Dorsett, Tom Druckenmiller, Mark Greenberg, Victor K. Heyman, Stephanie P. Ledgin, John Lupton, Andy Nagy, Angela Page, Mike Regenstreif, Peter Spencer, Michael Tearson, Rich Warren, Matt Watroba, Elijah Wald, and Rob Weir. liant interpretation but only someone with not your typical backwoods folk musician, Jodys skill and knowledge could pull it off. as he studied at both Oberlin and the Cin- The CD continues in this fashion, go- cinnati College Conservatory of Music. He ing in and out of dream with versions of was smitten with the hammered dulcimer songs like Rhinordine, Lord Leitrim, in the early 70s and his virtuosity has in- and perhaps the most well known of all spired many players since his early days ballads, Barbary Ellen. performing with Grey Larsen. Those won- To use this recording as background derful June Appal recordings are treasured JODY STECHER music would be a mistake. I suggest you by many of us who were hearing the ham- Oh The Wind And Rain sit down in a quiet place, put on the head- mered dulcimer for the first time. -
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