ISBN: 9780252054037

Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for "tough on black artists." But the Theater Owner's Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational role in the Afric… Mehr…

Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for "tough on black artists." But the Theater Owner's Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational role in the African American entertainment industry and provided a training ground for icons like Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Sammy Davis Jr., the Nicholas Brothers, Count Basie, and Butterbeans and Susie. Michelle R. Scott’s institutional history details T.O.B.A.’s origins and practices while telling the little-known stories of the managers, producers, performers, and audience members involved in the circuit. Looking at the organization over its eleven-year existence (1920–1931), Scott places T.O.B.A. against the backdrop of what entrepreneurship and business development meant in black America at the time. Scott also highlights how intellectuals debated the social, economic, and political significance of black entertainment from the early 1900s through T.O.B.A.’s decline during the Great Depression.Clear-eyed and comprehensive, T.O.B.A. Time is a fascinating account of black entertainment and black business during a formative era.; EPUB; Music, Stage & Screen > Dance & other performing arts > Other performing arts > Variety shows, music, University of Illinois Press<

ISBN: 9780252054037

University of Illinois Press World History popular culture, 1920s Jazz age, business history, segregation, show business, Sherman H. Dudley, Charles Turpin, John. T. Gibson, Emma Griffin,… Mehr…

University of Illinois Press World History popular culture, 1920s Jazz age, business history, segregation, show business, Sherman H. Dudley, Charles Turpin, John. T. Gibson, Emma Griffin, racial uplift, theater management, minstrelsy, ragtime, unionization, blues music, Colored Actor's Union, Cab Calloway, Butterbeans and Susie, Nicholas Brothers, black wealth, fame, child labor, religious backlash, racial violence, Tulsa Massacre, censorship, chorus girls, comedians, travel, segregated economies, black entrepreneurship, black excellence, State Street-Chicago, East 9th Street-Chattanooga, T Street-Washington D.C, legacy, historic theaters ,9780252086984 UK,GB,DE,ES,FR,IT,US,CA,MX,AU,NZ 20230228 English History, University of Illinois Press<