{"product_id":"le-boogie-woogie-inside-an-afterhours-club-the-cosmopolitan-life-9780231177887","title":"Le Boogie Woogie Inside an AfterHours Club The","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTerry Williams has already established himself as a master of gaining access to hard-to-reach, hidden, and vulnerable populations. He has done so again here, giving an in-depth look at a place with which most people will be totally unfamiliar in a vivid and compelling style. -- Richard E. Ocejo, author of \u003ci\u003eMasters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliams, our twenty-first century griot with an unparalleled deftness for illuminating the most cavernous recesses of our humanity, weaves together exquisite prose, unburdened by self-consciousness or recriminations, pulsating with such delicious expectancy of nights lived reckless but free, tempered by a palpable compassion that renders the foreign familiar and lays bare the beautifully flawed souls buried beneath. -- Lawanna R. Kimbro, civil rights attorney\u003cbr\u003eAn admirable effort to illuminate a hidden world that will be most useful to fellow researchers in the social sciences. * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. The Setting\u003cbr\u003e2. The Scene\u003cbr\u003e3. The Characters\u003cbr\u003e4. After-Hours Now\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: A Culture of Refusal\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 1. Methodological Appendix\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 2. Field Note Samples\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 3. Where Are They Now?\u003cbr\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400307679575,"sku":"9780231177887","price":71.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231177887.jpg?v=1730470345","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/le-boogie-woogie-inside-an-afterhours-club-the-cosmopolitan-life-9780231177887","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}