Williams Le Boogie Woogie

Inside an After-Hours Club
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-54938-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: The Cosmopolitan Life

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Terry

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
1. The Setting
2. The Scene
3. The Characters
4. 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Terry Williams is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the New School for Social Research. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including, most recently, The Con Men: Hustling in New York City (Columbia, 2015) and Teenage Suicide Notes: An Ethnography of Self-Harm (Columbia, 2017).