“Jive That Anybody Can Dig :” Lavada “Dr. Hepcat” Durst and the desegregation of radio in Central Texas, 1948-1963

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dc.contributor.advisorMiller, Karl Hagstrom, 1968-
dc.creatorWeiss, Peter Okieen
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-07T17:54:06Zen
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-22T22:27:08Z
dc.date.available2018-01-22T22:27:08Z
dc.date.issued2012-08en
dc.date.submittedAugust 2012en
dc.date.updated2014-11-07T17:54:06Zen
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractLavada “Dr. Hepcat” Durst was the first African American popular music disc jockey in Texas. His radio program The Rosewood Ramble was broadcast on Austin station KVET-1300 AM from 1948 until 1963. KVET’s white owners, who included future Texas politicians John Connally and J. J. “Jake” Pickle, were not outspoken advocates for the rights of African Americans under Jim Crow, but they hired Durst in a concentrated effort to expand KVET’s African American listening audience. The Rosewood Ramble became a cultural, economic, and psychological resource for black radio listeners in segregated central Texas while also becoming the region’s most popular radio show among white listeners. This paper uses a mixture of oral history and archival sources to argue that Durst’s fifteen-year career at KVET was only the best-known part of a lifetime spent as an information broker to Austin’s embattled black community.en
dc.description.departmentHistoryen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/27191en
dc.subjectLavadaen
dc.subjectDursten
dc.subjectHepcaten
dc.subjectAustinen
dc.subjectTexasen
dc.subjectRadioen
dc.subjectAfrican Americanen
dc.subjectBlacken
dc.subjectKveten
dc.subjectJohn Connallyen
dc.subjectJ.J.Pickleen
dc.subjectJake Pickleen
dc.subjectJiveen
dc.subjectChitlin circuiten
dc.subjectCivil rightsen
dc.subjectHistoryen
dc.subjectMusicen
dc.subjectBluesen
dc.subjectJazzen
dc.subjectRhythm and bluesen
dc.subjectSoulen
dc.subjectRock n' rollen
dc.subjectDisc jockeyen
dc.subjectDeejayen
dc.subjectGentrificationen
dc.subjectUrbanen
dc.subjectBusinessen
dc.subjectWorld War IIen
dc.title“Jive That Anybody Can Dig :” Lavada “Dr. Hepcat” Durst and the desegregation of radio in Central Texas, 1948-1963en
dc.typeThesisen

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