 | Le Boogie Woogie: Inside an After-Hours Club Subjects: Le Boogie Woogie (Nightclub) -- History; Nightlife -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; Harlem (New York N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; African American; 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. 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). |
