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Harlem of the West by Lewis Watts and Elizabeth Pepin Silva (2017, Trade Paperback)

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Billie Holiday singing at the New Orleans Swing Club. Dexter Gordon hanging out at Bop City. Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane all swinging through town for gigs. Sound like a nostalgic snapshot from the New York jazz scene, or perhaps New Orleans? Nope. This particular sentimental journey describes San Francisco's Fillmore District in its heyday. The Fillmore in the 1940s and 1950s was an eclectic, integrated, and hopping neighborhood dotted with restaurants, pool halls, theaters, and shops many minority-owned and boasting two dozen active nightclubs and music joints within its one square mile. Although it has been commemorated in songs, poems, and in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, few people today know of the rich history of the Fillmore and its musical legacy because it vanished abruptly and so thoroughly due to redevelopment in the 1960s. Through dozens of archival photographs and oral accounts from the neighborhood residents and musicians who experienced it at its height, Harlem of the West celebrates this unique and rediscovered chapter in jazz history and the African-American experience on the West Coast.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
On T.H.E. Water Front
ISBN-10
0998670413
ISBN-13
9780998670416
eBay Product ID (ePID)
235312681

Product Key Features

Author
Elizabeth Pepin Silva, Lewis Watts
Publication Name
Harlem of the West
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Educational Level
Adult & Further Education
Subject
General, United States / General
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Music, History
Number of Pages
248 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
10 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
10 in
Item Weight
64.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Age Range
10-Up
Grade from
Sixth Grade
Grade to
Up
Designed by
Jones, Steve
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
Adult Education

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