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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