Jump for Joy: Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America

Index

INDEX AAU (Amateur Athletic Union), 36, 37–38, 42, 45, 97 ABA (American Basketball Association), 2, 81, 86, 102, 106 Abott, Cleveland, 37–38 Abrahams, Roger, 155, 227–28n11, 230n60 accommodation, 17, 18 Action Comics, 31–32 Adams, “Jumpin’ Johnny,” 95 Adler, Renata, 133–34 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 231n62 Aerial Experiment Association, 22 aeronautics. See aviation aesthetic. See African American aesthetic AFL (American Federation of Labor), 165, 166 Africa: athletic competitions in, 147; and blues music, 195, 196; buzzards in, 153; call and response in music of, 188; dance of, 51, 63, 141–43, 147, 153, 185, 189–90, 192; expressive culture of, 188–90; jump in, xvii, 141, 146, 147–49, 153; minstrelsy in, 149–50 African American aesthetic: in basketball, xiv, 2, 89–92, 96, 100–101, 103–5, 109–10; characteristics of, 109–10, 188; contribution of, to popular culture, 1–3, 20, 21, 65–66, 197 African American holiness or sanctified churches, 156–57 African Ceremonial (dance), 143 The African (Courlander), 153 Afro-American, 139 After Seben, 51 Agricultural Adjustment Act, 19 Air Mail Special, 59 airplanes. See aviation air steps: first instance of, in Lindy Hop, xiii, 57–58, 211nn29–30, 212n34; as jumping steps generally, 1, 21, 195; and Manning, 55, 57–59, 194, 211nn29–30, 212n34; and popularity of Lindy Hop, 65; prohibition of, in ballrooms and nightclubs, 211n29; types of, 58–61, 65; by Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers in A Day at the Races, 60–61 Akron Firestones (basketball team), 81, 93 Akron Goodyear Wingfoots (basketball team), 81 Alabama State Hornets (basketball team), 12, 15 Albritton, Dave, 33, 40, 41, 43, 46, 47 Alhambra Ballroom, 56, 60 Allan, Lewis, 143 Allen, Forrest “Phog,” 86, 92 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), 36, 37–38, 42, 45, 97 America Dances, 143 American Basketball Association (ABA), 2, 81, 86, 102, 106 American Basketball League, 11–12, 14, 84, 86, 90 American Federation of Labor (AFL), 165, 166 American Revue Theatre, 177–78 American Stuff (Federal Writers’ Project), 138 America’s Musical Life (Crawford), 190 Amsterdam News, 40, 42, 61, 129, 143 Anderson, Ivy, 122, 178, 180–83, 185, 235n12 Anderson, Marian, 19, 132 Angelou, Maya, 132, 133 anti-lynching legislation, 19, 43, 170, 171 Apache Minstrels, 150 Apollo Theater, 10, 60, 72 Appalachian State College, 93 “The Apple Jump,” 65, 70 architecture. See skyscrapers; specific architects and buildings Arizin, Paul, 94, 102 armed forces: and basketball, 83, 93–94, 95, 98; desegregation of, xv, xvii, 171–72; segregation of, 113, 133, 170, 171–72, 185 Armstrong, Louis, 9, 34, 65, 122, 163 Ashe, Arthur, 97 Astaire, Fred, 61 athletic clubs, 36 athletics. See basketball; boxing; Olympics; track and field; specific players Atlanta, Ga., 5 Atlanta Journal, 128 Atlanta riots (1906), 137 Attali, Jacques, 192 Audubon Ballroom, 56 Auerbach, Red, 102–4 Autobiography of an Idea (Sullivan), 29 aviation: and Aerial Experiment Association, 22; African American pilots, 23; and Bell, 22; financial profits from, 23, 24; history of, 21–25; Lindbergh’s flight, xiii, xvi, 23–25, 30, 32, 33, 34; and Wright Brothers, 22–23 Baer, Max, 17, 114, 120, 131–32 Baez, Joan, 173 Bahamas, 151 Bailey, Bill, 156 Baker, Russell, 137–38 ballrooms. See nightclubs and dancehalls; specific ballrooms, such as Savoy Ballroom ’Bama State Collegians, 12 Bank of Manhattan Building, 27 barbershops, 7–8 Barefield, Eddie, 54 Barlow, William, 210n18 Barnet, Charlie, 10, 73 Barrelhouse Club, 75 Barrow, Joseph, 130 baseball: and Jenkins, 33; music compared with, 11; Negro League baseball, 33, 88, 96, 98; segregation of, 46; victory run in, 105–6 Basie, Count: basketball team of, 14; at Carnegie Hall concert, 10, 11; celebrity status of, 13; Ellington compared with, 69; impact of, on cultural permission, 137; and jump blues, 11, 69–72; on jumps, 71; musicians in orchestra of, 75; and “One O’Clock Jump,” xii, 1, 70, 72; orchestra of, in Kansas City, 68; as pianist, 69–70; and Pullman porters, 163; record contract of, 214n9; recordings and songs by, 70, 72, 76, 131, 176, 214nn8–9; at Renaissance Casino, 13; at Savoy Ballroom, 10–11; on stomps, 71, 214n12. See also Count Basie Orchestra basketball: attendance at games, 82; backboard in, 84, 112; balanced group and individual expression in, 187–88; barnstorming teams, 82; basket in, 83, 84, 112; black players on white college teams, 97–98; black professional basketball teams, xiii, 7, 12–15, 33, 81, 90–91, 101, 201n2; black style of, xiv, 2, 89–92, 96...