SHOOK, BEN

SHOOK, BEN. Dance bandleader (c1876 in Nashville, Tennessee; 19?? in Detroit, Michigan [?]). His family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, when he was an infant, and it was there that he first studied music. Later he attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee (1894-99), where he concentrated on the violin. He left Fisk before graduating because he was called to Detroit, Michigan, in the summer of 1899 to take over the leadership of Theodore Finney's dance orchestra. Eventually he left the...