Reminiscences of Earl Kenneth (Fatha) Hines : oral history, 1971.

Biographical Note

Musician; interviewee d. 1983.

Scope and Contents

Early career, Pittsburgh; opportunities and conditions for black musicians in Chicago, 1920s: social status, race relations, organized crime; view of Local 208, Black Musicians' Union; growing popularity of jazz in the 1920s, influence of radio; living between Chicago and New York City, the two cities compared.

Subjects

• African Americans--Segregation.
• African Americans--Social conditions.
• Hines, Earl, 1903-1983.
• Interviews.
• Jazz.
• Jazz musicians--Interviews.
• Lax, John, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories.

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