Validating Herbert Hall’s Contention
Validating Herbert Hall’s Contention
Paul Barnes’s Gig Book
This chapter provides evidence to jazz musician Herbert Hall’s claim that all jazz bands were going through West Virginia in the 1930s because the mines were in operation and everyone was employed. It discusses the contents of saxophonist/clarinetist Paul D. Barnes’ gig book, which provides information about the daily life of one black band in the mid-1930s. The chapter also provides Barnes’s records of the earnings of the Oliver Band in West Virginia, and from dances in states adjacent to West Virginia and in the Deep South.
Keywords: jazz bands, Herbert Hall, West Virginia, Paul D. Barnes, gig book, Oliver Band, dances, Deep South
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