3. Vaudeville and Vice
The Australian Jazz Age and its antecedents, respectable banjos, a Hollywood tragedy, and a saxophonist at the heart of a racially-charged international scandal heralding Australia’s inward turn.
Jump Jim Crow (New York: Firth & Hall), courtesy of the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, The Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University, reproduced in John Whiteoak, ‘Demons of Discord Down Under: “Jump Jim Crow” and 'Australia's First Jazz Band' in Bruce Johnson (ed.), Antipodean Riffs: Essays on Australasian Jazz, 27.
Black and White Minstrel Troupe Entertaining at the Seaside, ca. 1890–1900, State Library of Victoria, https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/61SLV_INST/1sev8ar/alma9921307033607636, accessed 3 July 2020.
Mr. Harry Cogill's New Minstrel Specialty Company, ca. 1897, State Library of Tasmania, https://stors.tas.gov.au/AUTAS001124870395w800.
Advertisement for Allan & Co., Amy Castles Song Album (Melbourne: Allan & Co, ca. 1902), 5.
Sam Lucas and William F. Quown, ‘DeCoon Dat Had De Razor’ (Boston: White, Smith & Co., 1885) Notated Music, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100007421.
‘Player Biographies: Alfred Farland’, Classic-Banjo-ning.com, https://classic-banjo.ning.com/page/player-biographies, accessed 14 August 2020.
Men and Women Playing Banjos and a Guitar, ca. 1893, State Library of Victoria, https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/61SLV_INST/1sev8ar/alma9917390243607636, accessed 20 February 2020.
Advertisement for Fuller's Jazz Band, Sun, 2 July 1918, 7
Advertisement for Fuller's Jazz Band, Herald, 25 July 1918, 8
Advertisement for Fuller's Jazz Band, Brisbane Courier, 23 September 1918, 2
Band playing ‘Stumbling Happy’, Castlemaine, Victoria, ca. 1920, Museums Victoria Collections, https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/771330, accessed 27 January 2022.
Advertisement for the Edison Diamond Amberola phonograph, reproduced in Herbert, ‘Selling Brass Instruments’, 215.
Advertisement for Conn saxophones, Australian Band and Orchestra News, 26 January 1926, 8.
Advertisement for Conn saxophones, Australian Band and Orchestra News, 26 February 1926, 8.
Advertisement for Allan's, Australian Band and Orchestra News, 26 March 1927, 16.
Advertisement for Allan's, Australian Band and Orchestra News, 26 February 1926, 26.
Metronome Orchestra Monthly 36, no. 11 (November 1920): 75, from Whiteoak, Playing Ad Lib, 169.
Metronome Orchestra Monthly 36, no. 11 (November 1920): 75, from Whiteoak, Playing Ad Lib, 169.
Frank Van Straten, Tivoli (South Melbourne: Lothian, 2003), 82.
‘The Famous Six Brown Brothers’, Table Talk, 24 December 1924, 41
‘Tom Katz’s Band for Perth’, Call News-Pictorial, 28 December 1928
Van Straten, Tivoli, 122.
Mercury, 6 July 1928, 8.
Van Straten, Tivoli, 90.
The Coloured Idea Band of Sonny Clay, Sam Hood Collection, State Library of New South Wales, https://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110095395.
Herald, 6 March 1928, 9
‘A Blackout for Sonny Clay’s Noisome Niggers’, Truth, 1 April 1928, 13
John Bulloch Souter, 1926. The Breakdown. The Royal Academy
Advertisement for Tom Katz and His Saxophone Band, Daily Telegraph, 25 November 1927, 13.
Cecil Trevelyan (ed.), Musicians’ Union of Australia Rules (Melbourne: P.E. Hambly, 1929), 10.
Trevelyan (ed.), Musicians’ Union of Australia Rules, 14.
Trevelyan (ed.), Musicians’ Union of Australia Rules, 15.
Trevelyan (ed.), Musicians’ Union of Australia Rules, 80.
The King of Jazz, directed by John Murray Anderson (Los Angeles: Universal Pictures, 1930), 1:34:56.
Anderson, The King of Jazz, 1:35:11.
'Epoch Making Influences', Australian Music Maker and Dance Band News, 1 June 1932, 8.