Walking Harlem

The Ultimate Guide to the Cultural Capital of Black America

Karen Taborn (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2018
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9457-6 (ISBN)

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With its rich cultural history and many landmark buildings, Harlem is not just one of New York's most distinctive neighbourhoods; it's also one of the most walkable. This illustrated guide takes readers on five separate walking tours of Harlem, covering ninety-one different historical sites.

With its rich cultural history and many landmark buildings, Harlem is not just one of New York’s most distinctive neighborhoods; it’s also one of the most walkable.

This illustrated guide takes readers on five separate walking tours of Harlem, covering ninety-one different historical sites. Alongside major tourist destinations like the Apollo Theater and the Abyssinian Baptist Church, longtime Harlem resident Karen Taborn includes little-known local secrets like Jazz Age speakeasies, literati, political and arts community locales. Drawing from rare historical archives, she also provides plenty of interesting background information on each location.

This guide was designed with the needs of walkers in mind. Each tour consists of eight to twenty-nine nearby sites, and at the start of each section, readers will find detailed maps of the tour sites, as well as an estimated time for each walk. In case individuals would like to take a more leisurely tour, it provides recommendations for restaurants and cafes where they can stop along the way.

Walking Harlem gives readers all the tools they need to thoroughly explore over a century’s worth of this vital neighborhood’s cultural, political, religious, and artistic heritage. With its informative text and nearly seventy stunning photographs, this is the most comprehensive, engaging, and educational walking tour guidebook on one of New York’s historic neighborhoods.

KAREN TABORN has been a Harlem resident for over thirty years; she has taught Harlem history at the New School and has served as a historical consultant for the 135th Street Harlem Walk of Fame. With graduate degrees in jazz and ethnomusicology, she has published articles in The Grove Dictionary of American Music and the journal Black Grooves.

Contents

About This Book

Introduction

Part I: Tours

Tour 1   Central Harlem: North

Tour 2   Central Harlem: Middle

Tour 3   Central Harlem: South

Tour 4   West Harlem: North

Tour 5   West Harlem, Washington Heights: Far North

Part II: Harlem: People, Places, and Movements

Civil Rights, Social Justice Movements, and Overcoming the Odds

The 1930s Harlem Arts Movement

The New Negro Movement and “Niggerati Manor”

Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association

Vaudeville Theater and Minstrelsy

The Development of Bebop (Jazz) in Harlem

Speakeasies, Small Clubs, Jungle Alley, and Stride Piano Players

James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison

Malcolm X

Sugar Hill

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.06.2018
Zusatzinfo	63 photos, 7 maps
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 178 mm
Gewicht	172 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► USA
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-8135-9457-X / 081359457X
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-9457-6 / 9780813594576
Zustand	Neuware