Jazz in the Hill : Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
American Made Music Series
ISBN-10
1496849868
ISBN-13
9781496849861
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Imprint
University Press of Mississippi
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 11th, 2024
Print length
277 Pages
Weight
504 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 23.40 x 2.10 cms
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From the 1920s through the 1960s, Pittsburgh’s Hill District was the heart of the city’s Black cultural life and home to a vibrant jazz scene. In Jazz in the Hill, Colter Harper looks at how jazz shaped the neighbourhood and created a way of life.
From the 1920s through the 1960s, Pittsburgh''s Hill District was the heart of the city''s Black cultural life and home to a vibrant jazz scene. In Jazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood, Colter Harper looks at how jazz shaped the neighborhood and created a way of life. Beyond backdrops for remarkable careers, jazz clubs sparked the development of a self-determined African American community. In delving into the history of entrepreneurialism, placemaking, labor organizing, and critical listening in the Hill District, Harper forges connections to larger political contexts, processes of urban development, and civil rights struggles. Harper adopts a broad approach in thinking about jazz clubs, foregrounding the network of patrons, business owners, and musicians who were actively invested in community building. Jazz in the Hill provides a valuable case study detailing the intersections of music, political and cultural history, public policy, labor, and law. The book addresses distinctive eras and issues of twentieth century American urban history, including notions of "vice" during the Prohibition Era (1920-1934); "blight" during the mid-twentieth century boom in urban redevelopment (1946-1973); and workplace integration during the civil rights era (1954-1968). Throughout, Harper demonstrates how the clubs, as a nexus of music, politics, economy, labor, and social relations, supported the livelihood of residents and artists while developing cultures of listening and learning. Though the neighborhood has undergone an extensive socioeconomic transformation that has muted its nightlife, this musical legacy continues to guide current development visions for the Hill on the cusp of its remaking.
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