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  INDEX

  Anderson, Leafy, 70, 86

  Armstrong, Louis, xvii–xix, 1, 5, 20, 31, 115, 140

  Arthur Hall Dance Company, 39

  Baby Dolls: in the Tremé, 2–5, 43, 74, 88, 111–16

  in Trinidad, 48, 49–50, 55

  uptown, 62–63, 92–95

  women writers’ reappropriation of, 58

  Back o’ Town, 8, 10, 35, 101, 142, 155n21

  Barker, Danny: and Black cultural practices in New Orleans, 69, 96

  and cutting contests, 29, 65

  description of sex workers, 16, 29

  and jazz as dance music, 29, 31–32, 38

  and poverty of Blacks in the District, 35

  and “raddy”/“ratty” distinction, 33

  Barnes, Bruce “Sunpie,” 115, 125, 137

  Barnes, Lizzie, 128, 142

  Barnes, Millie, 22, 128

  Batiste, Alma Trepagnier, xiii, xiv, 95, 97, 98, 133, 147, 164n32

  Batiste, Lionel, xiv, 88, 95

  Batiste Family Baby Dolls, 148

  Benevolent associations, viii, 22, 93, 113

  Black Indians, of New Orleans, xiii, xix, 1, 7, 8, 14, 24, 34, 43, 65, 69–70, 73, 75, 77
, 91, 92, 95, 97, 107, 111, 115, 129, 132, 133, 136, 137, 139, 150, 155n34

  Black Storyville, xiii, xvii–xix, 65, 67, 143. See also Perdido Street

  Bolden, Buddy, 30, 33, 73, 100, 157n10

  Bonart, Sam, 33, 157n24

  dry goods store of, 34

  and playground, 15, 25, 33, 129, 143

  Bounce. See Dance

  Briscoe, Neliska (“Baby”), 33, 101

  Brock, Jerry, 95, 134–35, 149

  Brooks, Willie, 142

  Brown, Althea, 22, 27, 36, 128, 142, 147

  Brustad, Wesley O., 39

  “Bucked up,” 15, 25, 33, 129

  Bucking: Blacks compared to horses, 15, 16

  as contest, 28, 29, 62, 69, 143, 144

  Calas, 69, 75

  Carnival: on Claiborne Avenue, 4, 62, 95, 104, 111, 132, 136, 150

  fear of women’s participation in, 54–57

  in New Orleans, xviii, xix, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 32, 33, 40–41, 43, 44, 51–54, 62, 65, 75–77, 78, 83–84, 85, 86, 87, 91–94, 104, 132, 144

  in Trinidad, 21, 49–50, 54

  and women’s agency, xix, 2, 4, 21, 51–54, 57, 65, 71, 75–77, 78–80, 102

  Castle, Irene, 44

  Chanting, 26, 36, 71, 72

  of Baby Dolls, 8, 69–73, 113, 154

  of Black Indians of New Orleans, 70, 91, 114

  and Black Spiritual church, 70

  Chippie: dress, 2, 48, 59

  prostitute, 20

  Collins, Lee, 28

  Cook, Ann, 155n21

  Crib, 19, 20, 48, 59, 62, 143

  Cross-dressing: at Mardi Gras, 62, 69, 87, 88

  of men, 69, 86, 87–91, 104

  at Trinidad Carnival, 56

  of women, 56, 62, 86

  Cutting contest, 28, 102

  Dance: bounce, 5, 101, 113, 114

  “black bottom,” 6

  cakewalk, 6

  early African American, 36–37

  foxtrot, 6

  in jazz age, 28–32, 37

  “naked dance,” 6, 14, 37–38

  second-line, 29, 38, 62, 92, 93, 99, 110, 114, 139

  “shake,” 6, 14, 26, 32, 37, 41–43, 76, 102, 103, 104, 111, 129, 144, 146

  shakedown, 41

  walking raddy, 14, 32, 33–34, 82, 128, 144, 146

  Diggs, Irene, 70–71

  Dirty Dozen Kazoo Band, xiiii, 87, 95, 111, 133, 134, 146, 148

  District, The. See Storyville

  Dyer, Calvin “DJ Hektik,” 113, 114, 117, 140

  Edwards, Eddie “Duke,” 15, 113, 156n1

  Ernie K-Doe Baby Dolls, xiv, 4, 6, 113, 136–39, 150

  Fat Tuesday, 26, 43, 88, 95, 130, 134

  Fat Tuesday (and All That Jazz!) (ballet), 39

  Francis, Sylvester, 43, 149, 155n34

  Funky Butt: dance, 30–31

  hall, 30

  song, 30, 157n10

  Gail, Sallie, 22, 128, 142

  Gold Digger Baby Dolls, 2, 6, 99, 105, 114, 115, 116, 135, 140, 148, 163n19

  Gold Diggers, 82, 104, 137, 148–49

  Golden Slipper Baby Dolls, 95–96, 97, 98, 133, 146–47

  Grand marshal, 97, 99, 114, 142

  Grant, Coot, 30, 31

  Guillemet, Anna, 43

  Guillemet, Pauline, 43

  Gumbo Ya-Ya (Saxon and Tallant), 11, 12, 15–16, 71

  Harlow, Victor, 24

  Harris, Victor, 115

  Hill, Beatrice, 15, 20, 22–27, 28, 33, 34, 36, 61, 63, 64, 66, 85, 101–2, 129, 142, 147, 157n22

  “Hot”: Million Dollar Baby Dolls and style, 24, 128

  music, 29, 30, 37, 41, 100, 114, 156n4

  places associated with vice, xix, 15

  Hurricane Katrina, 4, 113, 118, 139, 140–41

  I. W. Harper whiskey, 27, 129, 156n35, 156n37

  Jackson, Ida, 22, 128, 142

  Jackson, Mahalia, 8, 36

  Jackson, Tony, 37, 42, 46, 76, 155n21

  Jass, 72, 101

  Jazz: 3

  as dance music, 5, 28, 29–32, 114

  entrepreneurs, xiii, 2, 28, 32, 43

  and shift to concert music, 103–4

  Jim Crow, 31, 36, 42, 81

  Justin, Andrew, 43

  K-Doe, Antoinette, xiv, 2, 6, 109, 111, 113, 136–39, 150, 151

  Kazoo band, xiii, 43, 76, 111, 146, 148

  Kimble, Merline, xiv, 2, 99, 111, 114, 115, 116, 135, 140, 149

  Krewe, xiii, 7, 51, 79, 80

  LaMothe, Ferdinand “Jelly Roll Morton,” 14, 30, 48, 59, 155n21

  Leslie, Kenneth, 86–87

  Lewis, Collins “Coach,” 115

  Louisiana Weekly, 7, 10

  Louisiana Writers’ Project, 10, 12, 162n70

  Louis Satchmo Salute, 115

  Mardi Gras. See Carnival

  Mardi Gras Indians. See Black Indians, of New Orleans

  Martinez, Maurice, 73–77

  McCrady, John, 82–85

  McKinney, Robert Joseph: biography of, 11–13

  on Black New Orleans culture, 41

  contribution to Gumbo Ya-Ya, 10, 16, 71– 72

  interviews with Carnival queens, 52– 54

  on Million Dollar Baby Dolls, 19–20, 24, 25–27, 61, 65, 73, 88–90, 101–2, 127–31

  Metoyer, Johnny, 8, 24, 52, 53, 85, 128

  Million Dollar Baby Dolls, xix, 5, 7, 10–11, 33, 36, 44, 48, 52, 58, 61, 64, 65, 69, 73, 85, 100, 103, 128, 129, 135, 142, 146–47

  costumes of, 1, 2, 8, 13, 25, 60, 66

  and dance, 14, 20, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32, 34, 37–38, 101–2

  decline of, 27

  descriptions by local male celebrities, 14–15, 59

  distinguished from family groups, 2

  independence of, 8, 24, 26, 35, 68, 131

  origins of, 14, 22–27

  Montana, Allison “Tootie,” 75, 76, 97, 131, 132–33, 149

  Moore, Clara Belle, 20, 25, 66, 97, 127–28, 142

  Morton, Jelly Roll. See LaMothe, Ferdinand “Jelly Roll Morton”

  Mother-in-Law Lounge, 2, 111, 136, 138, 150

  Nelson, Lois, xiv, 2, 99, 114, 116, 140, 149

  New Orleans Society of Dance’s Baby Doll Ladies, xiv, 5, 6, 114, 116, 117, 140–41, 150

  New woman, 1, 34, 36, 45, 71

  Osborn, Royce, 108

  Panama Trio, 47

  Perdido Street, xvii–xix, 1, 8, 15, 19, 20, 30, 65, 66, 67

  Perry, Eva, xiv, 109, 113, 138–39, 151

  Pete’s Blue Heaven Lounge, 106

  Piazza, Willie V. (“Countess”), 60, 67, 68, 155n21

  Playing the dozens, 70, 72, 73

  Porch, The, 4, 5

  “Pretty Baby” (song), 46–47, 76

  Prostitution, xvii, 8, 18, 62, 63, 68, 80, 87, 100

  Raddy, 14, 20, 32, 33–34, 82, 114, 128, 144

  Rag, 30, 46, 157n9

  Ratty, 29, 33, 144

  Reed, Miriam Batiste, xiv, 4, 86, 97, 98, 108, 111, 112, 133–35, 136, 138, 147, 149

  Reimonenq, Arnold Louis, 98–99, 147

  Reimonenq, Fannie, 98–99, 147

  Rena, Henry “Kid,” xviii, 28, 29, 33

  Respectability, 92

  Black women’s desire for, 79, 160n14

  and rude behavior, 21

  and upper-class women’s envy of lower-class women, 59–60

  women rejecting restrictions of, 20, 21, 36, 49–50, 56–57, 62, 66, 68, 78–81, 93

  Rosebud Social and Pleasure Club, 98, 132, 148–49

  St. Joseph’s Night, 14, 26, 88–90, 104, 109, 129–31, 155n34

  Satin Sinners, 43, 148–49

  Saxon, Lyle, 10, 11, 16, 41–43

  Second line, 29, 38, 92–93, 99, 110

  Sexual spectacle, 55–56

  Shezbie, Felicia Batiste, 95, 134–35, 149

  Skeletons. See Skull and Bones Gangs

  Skull and Bones Gangs, xiii, xix, 5, 7, 8, 34, 37, 97, 98, 107, 110, 115, 117, 132, 133, 137, 139, 150

  Smith, Bradley, 3

  Stevenson,
Mercedes, xiv, 62–63, 92–94, 131–32, 148, 149

  Storyville, xvii, 3, 8, 9, 16, 20, 31, 35, 37, 46, 48, 61, 65, 73, 81, 86, 100, 101, 103, 131, 143, 144, 155n21, 156n37, 162n78

  Black women working in, 18–19, 21, 60, 67, 68, 102

  origins of, 66–67

  Tallant, Robert, 10–11, 14, 15–16, 80, 81, 102

  Tate, Leola (Million Dollar Baby Doll), 22, 24, 25, 28, 29, 36, 63, 66, 128–29, 142

  Thomas, Anita, 43, 149

  Thomas, Geannie, xiv, 4, 109, 112, 113, 136, 137–38, 151

  Tremé, 2, 5, 33, 41, 43, 74, 88, 109, 111, 116, 135, 148, 150

  Tremé Million Dollar Baby Dolls, 2

  Washington, Lloyd, 112, 113, 138

  Watts, Jennie, 89, 130

  Wigs, 2, 13, 44, 60, 147, 151

  White, Lulu, 21, 60, 67, 102

  White, Millisia, xiii–xv, 6, 88, 109, 113–14, 140, 141. See also New Orleans Society of Dance’s Baby Doll Ladies

  Wilson-Bazile, Resa “Cinnamon Black,” xiv, 2, 6, 108, 109, 140, 149, 151

  Zigaboos, 82

  Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, xiv, xviii, xix, 5, 7, 8, 9, 14, 16, 24, 34, 42, 52–54, 62, 75, 81, 82, 85, 91, 106, 107, 128, 131, 137, 143, 150, 160n14

 

 

 


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