1. A. C. Greene, “Introduction,” in William L. McDonald,
Dallas Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion, 1870-1925 (Dallas: The Dallas Historical Society, 1978), v.
2. Alan B. Govenar and Jay
F. Brakefield,
Deep Ellum and Central Track: Where the Black and White
Worlds of Dallas Converged (Denton: University of North Texas Press,
1998). Much of my historical information in the first two paragraphs in
"
Blues History and Urban Life" is derived
from their book.
3. Charles Wolfe and Kip Lornell,
The Life & Legend of Leadbelly (New York: HarperCollins,
1992), 42-48.
4. Paul Oliver,
Blues
Off the Record: Thirty Years of Blues Commentary (New York: Da Capo,
1984), 162.
5. Govenar and Brakefield,
Deep Ellum and Central Track, 138-163.
6. Quoted by Dan Baum, "Letter
from New Orleans: The Lost Year: Behind the Failure to Rebuild,"
The New Yorker, August 21, 2006, 52.
7. Baum, 52.
8. See Campagna's website
http://www.franksart.net/.
9. The only chronological history of the revival of Deep Ellum that I know of is provided by
The Dallas Observer:
http://www.thedoordallas.com/rdh/observer_july_1999.htm
10. The Dallas Times Herald, February 10, 1991, A29.
Kevin Pask was born and raised in Dallas, and he now teaches
English literature at Concordia University in Montreal. He works primarily
on Renaissance literature, and, every once in a while, on Texas. His
other essay on Texas, "
God's
Casino: The Texas of George W. Bush," appeared in
Dissent in
the summer of 2006.
Published: 30 October 2007
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