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Deep Ellum: The Other Side of Dallas (John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University)

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Deep Ellum, at the eastern edge of downtown Dallas, retains its character as an alternative choice to the city’s staid image with loft apartments, art galleries, nightclubs, and tattoo shops. It first sprang up as a ramshackle business district with saloons and variety theatres and evolved, all through the early decades of the 20 th century, into a spot where the black and white worlds of Dallas converged.

This book strips away layers of myth to light up the cultural milieu that spawned such seminal blues and jazz musicians as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Buster Smith, and T-Bone Walker and that was once also an incubator for the growth of western swing.

Expanding upon the original 1998 publication, this Texas A&M University Press edition offers new research on Deep Ellum’s important cross-fertilization of white and black musical styles, many additional rare historical photographs, and an up to date account of the area within the early years of the twenty-first century.


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