Format:
XXV, 261 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Blätter
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
ISBN:
178453529X
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9781784535292
Content:
Brother, can you spare a dime? -- The little flower and Goliath -- Trouble in the streets -- 'I can't figger what dis city is comin' to' -- All that jazz -- Gotham gets a facelift -- The thing about skyscrapers -- Seventy-seventh floor, please -- Anything you can do -- You're the top -- They all laughed at Rockefeller Center -- Village life -- Huddled masses yearning to breathe
Content:
New York is often described as the greatest city in the world. Yet much of the iconic architecture and culture which defines the city as we know it today – from the Empire State Building to the Pastrami sandwich – only came into being in the 1930s, in what author Jules Stewart argues was the most significant decade in the city’s 400-year history in his new book, Gotham Rising: New York in the 1930s. After the roaring twenties, the catastrophic Wall Street Crash and the ensuing Depression seemed to spell disaster for the vibrant city. Instead, Stewart details how New York underwent an architectural, economic, social, and creative renaissance, on two levels: the four skyline icons that rose in the era (the Empire State Building, Waldorf-Astoria, Rockefeller Center, and the Chrysler Building), and with the cultural life in the streets below – the Harlem Renaissance championed by writers like Langston Hughes, the Jazz Age with the advent of Tin-Pan Alley, the birth of the swing era at places like the Cotton Club and with musical immortals like Duke Ellington, the arrival of an avant-garde artistic movement with Jackson Pollock and the fine artists at the Art Students League, the Jewish scientific and intellectual scene that fled Nazi Germany, and more.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781786720436
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781786720435
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
New York, NY
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Geschichte 1930-1939
