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McKinney's Cotton Pickers and the "Unseen Audience": Constructing Blackness on the Radio

McKinney's Cotton Pickers and the "Unseen Audience": Constructing Blackness on the Radio Al YssA meHNer T m cKinney’s Cotton Pickers and the “u nseen Audience”: Constructing b lackness on the r adio on october 21, 1928, the mainstream newspaper the Detroit Free Press announced the return of mcKinney’s Cotton Pickers’ to Detroit’s Gray- stone ballroom and WJr radio after a summer hiatus for touring and recording. “A program by the Cotton Pickers,” reads the press notice, “means that the staff at the radio has no time for anything but the tele- phones. There is always a constant stream of requests despite the oft- repeated announcement that such requests must be mailed in advance of the program. The band will be heard frequently over WJr throughout the season and will be a weekly feature of the red Apple Club on WCX.” Who was this band that garnered a “constant stream of requests” from radio listeners? mcKinney’s Cotton Pickers (mKCP), a Detroit- based black dance band managed by Jean Goldkette and active from 1923 to 1934, was known for its well- rehearsed performances of dance music, such as fox- trots and waltzes, as well as its “hot” soloists, blues compositions, and syncopated ensemble writing. mKCP first formed in 1921 in springfield, ohio, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Music University of Illinois Press

McKinney's Cotton Pickers and the "Unseen Audience": Constructing Blackness on the Radio

Mehnert, Alyssa
American Music , Volume 37 (2) – Jul 26, 2019
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University of Illinois Press
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Al YssA meHNer T m cKinney’s Cotton Pickers and the “u nseen Audience”: Constructing b lackness on the r adio on october 21, 1928, the mainstream newspaper the Detroit Free Press announced the return of mcKinney’s Cotton Pickers’ to Detroit’s Gray- stone ballroom and WJr radio after a summer hiatus for touring and recording. “A program by the Cotton Pickers,” reads the press notice, “means that the staff at the radio has no time for anything but the tele- phones. There is always a constant stream of requests despite the oft- repeated announcement that such requests must be mailed in advance of the program. The band will be heard frequently over WJr throughout the season and will be a weekly feature of the red Apple Club on WCX.” Who was this band that garnered a “constant stream of requests” from radio listeners? mcKinney’s Cotton Pickers (mKCP), a Detroit- based black dance band managed by Jean Goldkette and active from 1923 to 1934, was known for its well- rehearsed performances of dance music, such as fox- trots and waltzes, as well as its “hot” soloists, blues compositions, and syncopated ensemble writing. mKCP first formed in 1921 in springfield, ohio, and

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American Music – University of Illinois Press

Published: Jul 26, 2019

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