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T.O.B.A. Time : Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America
Title
T.O.B.A. Time : Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America / Michelle R Scott.
ISBN
9780252054037
9780252086984
9780252044885
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©[2023]
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: They Called It T.O.B.A. Chapter 1. "Whistling Coons" No More: Race Uplift & the Path to T.O.B.A.
Chapter 2. Hebrew, Negro, and American Owners: Black Vaudeville and Interracial Management
Chapter 3. T.O.B.A Forms: The Interracial Business Plan for a New Negro Business
Chapter 4. The Multiple Meanings of T.O.B.A: The Performers' Perspective
Chapter 5. A Responsibility to Community: Circuit Theaters and Black Regional Audiences
Chapter 6. "Trouble in Mind": The End of T.O.B.A. Time
Epilogue: T.O.B.A.'s Legacy
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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