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This was Harlem : a cultural portrait, 1900-1950
- Title
- This was Harlem : a cultural portrait, 1900-1950 / Jervis Anderson.
- Author
- Anderson, Jervis
- Publication
- New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [1982]
- ©1982
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Details
- Description
- x, 389 pages : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm
- Summary
- A chronological account of early Harlem covering its literature, painting, music, clubs, churches, and individuals who played important roles in the community.
- Alternative Title
- Cultural portrait, 1900-1950
- Subject
- Geschichte 1900-1950
- African Americans > New York (State) > New York > History
- African Americans
- Civilization
- Kultur
- Zwarten
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Civilization
- New York (N.Y.) > Civilization
- New York (State) > New York
- New York (State) > New York > Harlem
- New York- Harlem
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > History
- New York (N.Y.) > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The road uptown. "Forgotten streets" ; Black Bohemia ; Social leadership ; Music and comedy ; Departures and arrivals ; A struggle for Harlem -- Shaping a Black metropolis. "The promised land" ; Style in ragtime ; The beauty business ; Harlem at sixteen ; Democracy and the flag ; Toward a Black theatre ; "Here comes my daddy now" ; Garvey : "poet and romancer" ; From ragtime to jazz -- High and handsome. "What a city!" ; "There won't be any more liquor" ; Streets of dreams ; The Saturday night function ; Around midnight ; Bye, bye, blackbird ; But what was Harlem? -- Life and letters. A tradition of the new ; Some writers ; A'Lelia Walker -- Hard times. The beat goes on ; Sunny gets blue ; The Lord will provide ; The Depression and the arts ; In the ring with Joe ; Another war, another time ; Harlem explodes ; The West Indians -- Style, class, and beyond. At the Savoy ; "Cool deal, McNeil" ; Seventh Avenue : the Great Black Way ; Society ; On Strivers Row and Sugar Hill ; The thrill is gone.
- ISBN
- 0374276234
- 9780374276232
- 0374517576
- 9780374517571
- LCCN
- 81017474
- OCLC
- ocm08032219
- 8032219
- SCSB-30835
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library