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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Juke Joints - informal establishment for music, drinking, gambling, and dancing. Primarily operated by African Americans. Popular after Emancipation. Place to relax for plantation workers and sharecroppers. (Wikipedia "juke joints")
JUKE -jook- JOINTS
Jook Dance by Alfred Henderson
Example of Bahaman drum music - Janie & TC enjoyed this kind of music together in the muck
Modern day muck-about in the Everglades
But the muck meant Tea Cake and Tea Cake wasn't there...
the journey of Tea Cake & Janie: references
Pictures from Myanmar devastation but similar to Tea Cake & Janie's experience
click on link above and check out muck-about video
Whut dey want you tuh help do, you ain't gointuh like it. Dey's grabbin' all de menfolks dey kin git dey hands on and makin' 'em help bury de dead -chapter 19 p. 169
Saturday afternoon when the work tickets were turned into cash everybody began to buy coon-dick and get drunk...The police chief in his speedy Ford was rushing from jook to jook and eating house trying to keep order...(ch.17)
LAKE OCHECHOBEE 1928 HURRICANE DEVASTATION
COON-DICK: cheap or bad bootleg liquor; moonshine
Janie's Baked Beans
