| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
The cosmopolitan life
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Cosmopolitan life.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction -- The setting -- The scene -- The characters -- After-hours now -- Conclusion: a culture of refusal -- acknowledgments -- Appendix 1. Methodological appendix -- Appendix 2. Field note samples -- Appendix 3. Where are they now? -- Glossary : slang at Le Boogie Woogie -- Glossary : slang at Murphy's Bar -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
"The 'after-hours club' is a fixture of the African American ghetto. It is a semisecret, unlicensed 'spot' where 'regulars' and 'tourists' mingle with 'hustlers' to buy and use drugs long after regular bars are closed and the party has ended for the 'squares.' After-hours clubs are found in most cities, but for people outside of their particular milieu, they are formidably difficult to identify and even more difficult to access. The sociologist Terry Williams returns to the cocaine culture of Harlem in the 1980s and '90s with an ethnographic account of a club he calls Le Boogie Woogie. He explores the life of a cast of characters that includes regulars and bar workers, dealers and hustlers, following social interaction around the club's active bar, with its colorful staff and owner and the 'sniffers' who patronize it. In so doing, Williams delves into the world of after-hours clubs, exploring their longstanding function in the African American community as neighborhood institutions and places of autonomy for people whom mainstream society grants few spaces of freedom. He contrasts Le Boogie Woogie, which he visited in the 1990s, with a Lower East Side club, dubbed Murphy's Bar, twenty years later to show how 'cool' remains essential to those outside the margins of society even as what it means to be 'cool' changes. Le Boogie Woogie is an exceptional ethnographic portrait of an underground culture and its place within a changing city"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Le Boogie Woogie (Nightclub) -- History.
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Nightlife -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
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Nightlife. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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African Americans. |
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Cocaine abuse -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
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Manners and customs. |
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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National Book Committee. |
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Cocaine abuse. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) |
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African Americans -- Social life and customs. |
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New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Title |
Boogie Woogie |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Williams, Terry M. (Terry Moses), 1948- Le Boogie Woogie. New York : Columbia University Press, [2020] 9780231177887 (DLC) 2019023885 (OCoLC)1100770531 |
| ISBN |
9780231549387 (electronic book) |
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0231549385 (electronic book) |
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9780231177887 (cloth) |
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9780231177894 (paperback) |
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