{"title":"The Central Avenue Borderscape","authors":"K. Marcus","doi":"10.1525/phr.2022.91.4.492","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Since the early twentieth century, African Americans in Los Angeles confronted a variety of borders—racial, cultural, economic, and social—in an environment of Jim Crow restrictions. In this article I apply the concept of the borderscape to the multiethnic community of Central Avenue in Los Angeles to consider how musicians encountered borders in the city during the Great Migration. In the fields of jazz (Clora Bryant, Howard McGhee, Dexter Gordon), education (William Wilkins, John Gray, Sam Browne, Alma Hightower), and composition (William Grant Still, Harold Bruce Forsythe), many African Americans used music both to transcend borders and to resist Jim Crow restrictions within the Central Avenue borderscape.","PeriodicalId":45312,"journal":{"name":"PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2022.91.4.492","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Since the early twentieth century, African Americans in Los Angeles confronted a variety of borders—racial, cultural, economic, and social—in an environment of Jim Crow restrictions. In this article I apply the concept of the borderscape to the multiethnic community of Central Avenue in Los Angeles to consider how musicians encountered borders in the city during the Great Migration. In the fields of jazz (Clora Bryant, Howard McGhee, Dexter Gordon), education (William Wilkins, John Gray, Sam Browne, Alma Hightower), and composition (William Grant Still, Harold Bruce Forsythe), many African Americans used music both to transcend borders and to resist Jim Crow restrictions within the Central Avenue borderscape.
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For over 70 years, the Pacific Historical Review has accurately and adeptly covered the history of American expansion to the Pacific and beyond, as well as the post-frontier developments of the 20th-century American West. Recent articles have discussed: •Japanese American Internment •The Establishment of Zion and Bryce National Parks in Utah •Mexican Americans, Testing, and School Policy 1920-1940 •Irish Immigrant Settlements in Nineteenth-Century California and Australia •American Imperialism in Oceania •Native American Labor in the Early Twentieth Century •U.S.-Philippines Relations •Pacific Railroad and Westward Expansion before 1945
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