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Harlem|ˈhɑːləm|
The name of a predominantly Black area in Manhattan, New York, used subst., attrib. or in Comb. to designate a strongly swinging jazz style. Also as quasi-adj.
1934C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. vii. 201 By jazz, of course, I mean the whole movement roughly designated as such, and not merely that section of it known as Afro-American, or more familiarly as ‘Harlem’. Ibid. viii. 224 American jazz is either too Hollywood or too Harlem—it rarely suggests the dusty panorama of American life. 1946R. Blesh Shining Trumpets xiii. 315 Harlem piano was, more than any other style, akin to the player piano, no doubt because many Harlem pianists made early player rolls. 1947R. de Toledano Frontiers of Jazz p. ix, Harlem Jazz is.. much more commercial, there's less going on, and therefore it's easier to understand. 1958C. Fox in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz vii. 87 A percussive, striding style of playing..still called..‘Harlem Piano’. 1959M. T. Williams Art of Jazz (1960) iii. 17 The Harlem style of James P. Johnson and Fats Waller.
▸ Harlem Renaissance n. hist. (orig. U.S.) (with the) a flourishing and increase in awareness of African-American culture and art (esp. literature), based in Harlem, New York City, in the 1920s and 1930s.
1940L. Hughes Big Sea iii. 334 That spring for me (and, I guess, all of us) was the end of the *Harlem Renaissance. We were no longer in vogue, anyway, we Negroes. 1994Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 30 Jan. e1/3 Donations include letters, manuscripts,..and art from the Harlem Renaissance. |