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Cafe Society

Thierry Coudert
Cafe Society Book PDF

Author : Thierry Coudert
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Design
ISBN : 9782080204295

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Aristocrats, millionaires, painters, fashion designers, choreographers, and musicians of the café society fox-trot aboard cruise liners and mingle at dazzling parties in Paris. Exclusive, extravagant, and beautiful, these cosmopolitan socialites were the patrons who galvanized the phenomenal success of the greatest creators of the early twentieth century. It was a whirlwind of sumptuously decorated villas and yachts, up-and-coming haute couture and jewelry designers, and elite evening parties, immortalized by fashion photographers like Cecil Beaton. Combining elegance and fantasy, the members of the café society enjoyed a sophisticated, avant-garde lifestyle. Some of the century’s most original talents—from Cole Porter to Yves Saint Laurent—stepped into the limelight via the café society. Through archival photographs and period documents, this volume recounts in historical detail the intrigue and impact generated around the world by this stylish jet-set.

Beautiful People of the Café Society

Baron de Cabrol
Beautiful People of the Caf Society Book PDF

Author : Baron de Cabrol
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9782080204554

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Beautiful People of the Café Society by Baron de Cabrol Pdf

The Baron de Cabrol’s legendary scrapbooks capture a golden era of glamour and reveal the sheer elegance and decadence of the cosmopolitan café society. The glamorous aristocrats Daisy and Fred de Cabrol formed one of the most prominent twentieth-century high-society couples on the international scene. Leading members of the exclusive café society, they socialized with the biggest names in the haut monde—from the Maharani of Kapurthala to Queen Amelia of Portugal to their close friends the Windsors. Reproducing pages from the scrapbooks crafted with beauty and wit by the Baron de Cabrol between 1938 and the 1960s, this volume reveals the privileged and extravagant world of the café society. Through collages, watercolors, and previously unpublished archival documents, readers will discover the exceptional journey through the golden age of elegance and art.

Cafe Society

Barney Josephson,Terry Trilling-Josephson
Cafe Society Book PDF

Author : Barney Josephson,Terry Trilling-Josephson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252095832

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Set against the drama of the Great Depression, the conflict of American race relations, and the inquisitions of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Cafe Society tells the personal history of Barney Josephson, proprietor of the legendary interracial New York City night clubs Cafe Society Downtown and Cafe Society Uptown and their successor, The Cookery. Famously known as "the wrong place for the Right people," Cafe Society featured the cream of jazz and blues performers--among whom were Billie Holiday, Big Joe Turner, Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Big Sid Catlett, and Mary Lou Williams--as well as comedy stars Imogene Coca, Zero Mostel, and Jack Gilford, the boogie-woogie pianists, and legendary gospel and folk artists. A trailblazer in many ways, Josephson welcomed black and white artists alike to perform for mixed audiences in a venue whose walls were festooned with artistic and satiric murals lampooning what was then called "high society." Featuring scores of photographs that illustrate the vibrant cast of characters in Josephson's life, this exceptional book speaks richly about Cafe Society's revolutionary innovations and creativity, inspired by the vision of one remarkable man.

Café Society

A. Tjora,G. Scambler
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Author : A. Tjora,G. Scambler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781137275936

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While tracing the historical emergence of the café as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occident, three themes run like threads of varying texture through the chapters: the social connectivity and inclusion of cafés, café as surrogate office, and café as site of exchange for news and views.

Details Are Unprintable

Allan Levine
Details Are Unprintable Book PDF

Author : Allan Levine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781493057870

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Details Are Unprintable by Allan Levine Pdf

The narrative of Details Are Unprintable primarily unfolds over a seven-month period from October 1943 to April 1944—from the moment the body of twenty-two-year old Patricia Burton Lonergan is discovered in the bedroom of her New York City Beekman Hill apartment, to the arrest of her husband of two years, Wayne Lonergan, for her murder, and his subsequent trial and conviction. But this story goes back in time to the 1920s, when Wayne Lonergan grew up in Toronto and then forward to his post-prison life following his deportation to Canada. It is the chronicle of Lonergan in denial as a bisexual or gay man living in an intolerant and morally superior heterosexual world; and of Patricia, rich and entitled, a seeker of attention, who loved a night out on the town—all set against the fast pace of New York’s ostentatious café society. Part True Crime and part a social history of New York City in the 1940s, this book transports readers to the New York World’s Fair of 1939 when Patricia’s father William Burton first encountered Lonergan; the Stork Club, 21 Club, and El Morocco to experience with Patricia a night of drinking champagne cocktails and dancing; and the muggy New York courtroom where Lonergan’s fate was decided. What truly happened on that tragic night in October 24, 1943? Should we accept Lonergan’s confession at face value as the jury did? Or was he indeed a victim of physical and mental abuse by the state prosecutors and the police, as he maintained for the rest of his life? This book considers these, and other, key questions.

New York CafÕ© Society

Anthony Young
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Author : Anthony Young
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476619064

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In the midst of the Great Depression, an elite group of New Yorkers lived seemingly unaffected by the economic calamity. They were writers, playwrights, journalists, artists, composers, singers, actors, adventurers and socialites. Newspaperman Maury Paul dubbed them the Café Society. It was the time of Prohibition, speakeasies and exclusive nightclubs for the smart set to see and be seen. Their lives were the stuff of newspaper columns and magazine articles, eagerly read by millions of Americans who wanted to forget the Depression. This book describes the emergence of Café Society from New York’s old society families, and the rise of the new creative class.

Cafe Society

Barney Josephson,Terry Trilling-Josephson
Cafe Society Book PDF

Author : Barney Josephson,Terry Trilling-Josephson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252034138

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Cafe Society by Barney Josephson,Terry Trilling-Josephson Pdf

The story of the night club impresario whose wildly successful interracial club, Cafe Society, changed the American artistic landscape forever

New York Cafe Society

Anthony Young
New York Cafe Society Book PDF

Author : Anthony Young
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786474370

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New York Cafe Society by Anthony Young Pdf

In the midst of the Great Depression, an elite group of New Yorkers lived seemingly unaffected by the economic calamity. They were writers, playwrights, journalists, artists, composers, singers, actors, adventurers and socialites. Newspaperman Maury Paul dubbed them the Cafe Society. It was the time of Prohibition, speakeasies and exclusive nightclubs for the smart set to see and be seen. Their lives were the stuff of newspaper columns and magazine articles, eagerly read by millions of Americans who wanted to forget the Depression. This book describes the emergence of Cafe Society from New York's old society families, and the rise of the new creative class.

The Stork Club

Ralph Blumenthal
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Author : Ralph Blumenthal
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0316105317

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With guns, diamonds, and champagne that never stops, the Stork Club has been the touchstone of glamour and celebrity for much of the century. Now, a "New York Times" columnist provides the definitive profile of Sherman Billingsley and his ultimate cafe. 75 photos.

Hazel Scott

Karen Chilton
Hazel Scott Book PDF

Author : Karen Chilton
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472034475

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Hazel Scott by Karen Chilton Pdf

The first biography of an important but overlooked African American pianist, singer, actor, and civil-rights advocate

Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

Clive James
Cultural Amnesia Necessary Memories from History and the Arts Book PDF

Author : Clive James
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780393285420

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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James Pdf

"I can't remember when I've learned as much from something I've read—or laughed as much while doing it."—Jacob Weisberg, Slate Finally in paperback after six hardcover printings, this international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece—the perfect introduction to the very core of Western humanism. Clive James rescues, or occasionally destroys, the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the twentieth century. Soaring to Montaigne-like heights, Cultural Amnesia is precisely the book to burnish these memories of a Western civilization that James fears is nearly lost.

The Little Clan

Iris Martin Cohen
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Author : Iris Martin Cohen
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488080470

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“A brilliant newcomer ... Cohen is not only a talented writer; she is an artist.”—Andre Aciman, New York Times-bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name, the novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning film A love letter to classic literature and an illuminating look at newfound adulthood Ava Gallanter is the librarian in residence at the Lazarus Club, an ancient, dwindling Manhattan arts club full of eccentric geriatric residents stuck in a long-gone era. Twenty-five-year-old Ava, however, feels right at home. She leads a quiet life, surrounded by her beloved books and sequestered away from her peers. When Ava’s enigmatic friend Stephanie returns after an unplanned year abroad, the intoxicating opportunist vows to rescue Ava from a life of obscurity. Stephanie, on the hunt for fame and fortune, promises to make Ava’s dream of becoming a writer come true, and together they start a Victorian-inspired literary salon at the Lazarus Club. However, Ava’s romanticized idea of the salon quickly erodes as Stephanie’s ambitions take the women in an unexpected—and precarious—direction. In this humorous yet keenly observant coming-of-age story, Cohen brings us into a boisterous literary world bathed in hubris and ambition. With eloquent prose and affecting storytelling, The Little Clan is both a wickedly fun yet sharply insightful look at friendship, feminism and finding yourself in your twenties.

The Rebel Café

Stephen R. Duncan
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Author : Stephen R. Duncan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781421426341

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The Rebel Café by Stephen R. Duncan Pdf

An account of how the subterranean nightspots in 1950s New York and San Francisco became social, cultural, and political hothouses for left-wing bohemians. The art and antics of rebellious figures in 1950s American nightlife—from the Beat Generation to eccentric jazz musicians and comedians—have long fascinated fans and scholars alike. In The Rebel Café, Stephen R. Duncan flips the frame, focusing on the New York and San Francisco bars, nightclubs, and coffeehouses from which these cultural icons emerged. Duncan shows that the sexy, smoky sites of bohemian Greenwich Village and North Beach offered not just entertainment but doorways to a new sociopolitical consciousness. This book is a collective biography of the places that harbored beatniks, blabbermouths, hipsters, playboys, and partisans who altered the shape of postwar liberal politics and culture. Touching on literary figures from Norman Mailer and Amiri Baraka to Susan Sontag as well as performers ranging from Dave Brubeck to Maya Angelou to Lenny Bruce, The Rebel Café profiles hot spots such as the Village Vanguard, the hungry i, the Black Cat Cafe, and the White Horse Tavern. Ultimately, the book provides a deeper view of 1950s America, not simply as the black-and-white precursor to the Technicolor flamboyance of the sixties but as a rich period of artistic expression and identity formation that blended cultural production and politics. “What emerges in these pages is nothing less than a comprehensive psycho-social geography of an underground counter-culture of black and white jazz musicians, leftists, poets, artists, beatniks, gays and lesbians and other people of the demi-monde.” —All About Jazz

The World Café

Juanita Brown,David Isaacs,World Cafe Community
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Author : Juanita Brown,David Isaacs,World Cafe Community
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781605092515

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The World Café by Juanita Brown,David Isaacs,World Cafe Community Pdf

The World Cafe is a flexible, easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing mutual knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action. Based on living systems thinking, this innovative approach creates dynamic networks of conversation that can catalyze an organization or community's own collective intelligence around its most important questions. Filled with stories of actual Cafe dialogues in business, education, government, and community organizations across the globe, this uniquely crafted book demonstrates how the World Cafe can be adapted to any setting or culture. Examples from such varied organizations as Hewlett-Packard, American Society for Quality, the nation of Singapore, the University of Texas, and many others, demonstrate the process in action. Along with its seven core design principles, The World Cafe offers practical tips for hosting "conversations that matter" in groups of any size- strengthening both personal relationships and people's capacity to shape the future together.

Jews and Jazz

Charles B Hersch
Jews and Jazz Book PDF

Author : Charles B Hersch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317270393

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Jews and Jazz by Charles B Hersch Pdf

Jews and Jazz: Improvising Ethnicity explores the meaning of Jewish involvement in the world of American jazz. It focuses on the ways prominent jazz musicians like Stan Getz, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Lee Konitz, Dave Liebman, Michael Brecker, and Red Rodney have engaged with jazz in order to explore and construct ethnic identities. The author looks at Jewish identity through jazz in the context of the surrounding American culture, believing that American Jews have used jazz to construct three kinds of identities: to become more American, to emphasize their minority outsider status, and to become more Jewish. From the beginning, Jewish musicians have used jazz for all three of these purposes, but the emphasis has shifted over time. In the 1920s and 1930s, when Jews were seen as foreign, Jews used jazz to make a more inclusive America, for themselves and for blacks, establishing their American identity. Beginning in the 1940s, as Jews became more accepted into the mainstream, they used jazz to "re-minoritize" and avoid over-assimilation through identification with African Americans. Finally, starting in the 1960s as ethnic assertion became more predominant in America, Jews have used jazz to explore and advance their identities as Jews in a multicultural society.