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Harlem of the West

The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era

Elizabeth Pepin Silva, Lewis Watts (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2020
Heyday Books (Verlag)
978-1-59714-492-6 (ISBN)

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In the 1940s and 50s, a jazz aficionado could find paradise in the nightclubs of San Francisco’s Fillmore District: Billie Holiday sang at the Champagne Supper Club; Chet Baker and Dexter Gordon jammed with the house band at Bop City; and T-Bone Walker rubbed shoulders with the locals at the bar of Texas Playhouse. The Fillmore was one of the few neighborhoods in the Bay Area where people of color could go for entertainment, and so many legendary African American musicians performed there for friends and family that the neighborhood was known as the Harlem of the West. Over a dozen clubs dotted the twenty-block radius. Filling out the streets were restaurants, pool halls, theaters, and stores, many of them owned and run by African Americans, Japanese Americans, and Filipino Americans. The entire neighborhood was a giant multicultural party pulsing with excitement and music. In 220 lovingly restored images and oral accounts from residents and musicians, Harlem of the West captures a joyful, exciting time in San Francisco, taking readers through an all-but-forgotten multicultural neighborhood and revealing a momentous part of the country’s African American musical heritage.

Elizabeth Pepin Silva is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, photographer, writer, and former day manager of the historic Fillmore Auditorium. She holds a degree in journalism from San Francisco State University. Lewis Watts is a photographer, archivist, and professor emeritus of art at UC Santa Cruz with a longstanding interest in the cultural landscape of the African diaspora in the Bay Area and internationally.

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Neighborhood

Chapter 2: The Heyday

Chapter 3: The End of an Era

Chapter 4: The Photographers & Archivists

Chapter 5: Our Stories

Neighborhood Maps with Locations of Fillmore Clubs and Bars

Selected Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.11.2018
Zusatzinfo	B&W photos throughout
Verlagsort	Berkeley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	254 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-59714-492-4 / 1597144924
ISBN-13	978-1-59714-492-6 / 9781597144926
Zustand	Neuware