Bennie Moten and his Competitors
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Bennie Moten and his Competitors - Kansas City Jazz |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Con Chapman; Music writer; |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Popular Music |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Kansas City; Kansas City jazz; African-American music; Lester Young; Charlie Parker; The Blue Devils; Bennie Moten; Coleman Hawkins; Ben Webster; Don Byas; Andy Kirk; Harlan Leonard; Jay McShann |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | Jazz; American Jazz |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | The political changes that created the environment in which jazz thrived in Kansas City are described; in 1920, America embarked on an experiment in self-restraint, banning the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages, a reform that came to be called “Prohibition.” People didn’t stop drinking, however, and illegal bars known as “speakeasies” sprang up around the country to serve alcohol surreptitiously. Kansas City was controlled by a politician—Tom Pendergast—who had owned saloons and a wholesale liquor business before prohibition, and he continued his operations after Prohibition more profitably than before as illicit liquor sales weren’t taxed. Americans patronized speakeasies and, since jukeboxes hadn’t been developed yet, a need for live music to accompany the flow of liquor was filled by musicians who came to Kansas City where nightclubs stayed open due to Pendergast’s control of law enforcement while they were closed elsewhere. One musician—pianist Bennie Moten—became the most successful bandleader in Kansas City on the basis of his ties to Pendergast, his organizational and business skills, and his sense of musical tastes shifting from the two-beat structure of ragtime to a more fluid four-beat structure. Moten’s principal competitors in the early days of Kansas City jazz are identified, and the reasons—both substantive and idiosyncratic—why he prevailed over them are explored. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 20-Mar-2023 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/42621 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.42621 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Kansas City Jazz |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
US Midwest, twentieth century |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |