GEOG 262 Week 9/10 - Nightlife

nickelodeon

• informal term for an American coin-operated mechanical jukebox / mechanical music device

• OR a small, rudimentary movie theater that charged five cents for admission, popular in North America from about 1905 to 1915

streetlights

• gas and then electric street lamps contributed to night life by allowing businesses to stay open longer and later into the night

white collar workers

• workers working urban office jobs (e.g. clerical and sales workers) with shifts that started later in the morning, which allowed them to stay out later at night

• Contributed to nightlife scene as they had shorter working hours and higher wages compared to manual and factory workers

• most avid consumers of commercial pleasures

typewriter novels

• ‘typewriter girl’ interacts with all kinds of men, eschewing marriage, rides a bike, goes on mildly reckless adventures, and frequents the nighttime entertainment spaces of the city

• Figure of “new urban womanhood” the fictional typewriter girls’ spatial mobility and flamboyant autonomy were linked to self-supporting wages, limited family supervision, and independence that, supposedly flowed from being a typist

bicycle craze

• 1890s

• advent of bikes give women more ‘freedom’ by allowing them greater independent mobility

Manuel Castells

• 1983

• Castells interested in various social movements

• mapped where gay people lived and gathered in San Francisco

Men’s Care and Caring in Gay Bars

1. identity formation and community building

   1. bars = place of shared identity

2. emotional caring

   1. inter-generational caring relations — families of choice

   2. Place to experience joy and desire without shame or fear, meet life partners

Material Caring in Gay Bars

1. Employment

   1. offered at bars

2. Fundraising

   1. as a material form of caring

3. Health Promotion

   1. AIDs and pre-AIDS (STDs): info, condoms, testing, tracing

4. Education and politics

   1. activism, leaflets, even field-trips for straight people

Tronto’s dimensions of caring relations

Dimension

• Caring about (recognizing a need)

• Taking care of (willingness to respond to)

• Caregiving (direct action)

• Care receiving (reaction to the care process)

Value

• Attentiveness

• Responsibility

• Competence

• Responsiveness

Applying Tronto’s dimensions to gay

• Caring about: recognizing Seattle needed gay bars to create and establish welcoming meeting places

• Taking care of: moving from recognition to willingness to react and meet them. Bars become primary means of assuming responsibility and realizing care

• Caregiving: taking action, not necessarily professionals, but also includes less formal means like simple physical contact (dancing and touch)

• Care receiving: respondents expressing feelings of relief, fulfillment, and belonging with the material and immaterial care gay bars offered

Gramophone

• 1890s

• records and record players

• allow music to be recorded and listened to later

Photography

• 1820s - 1830s

• Allow us to take pictures to capture moments in space and time that we can look at after the fact

Geography of jazz

• american jazz was first associated with the american south but spread and became one of the most widely recognized musical styles in the world

• story of jazz = story of movement, migration, and place

Diffusion

spreading of ideas and innovation from one place to other parts of the world / country

culture hearth

• a place that promote(d) the spread of new ideas, practices, and technology in different parts of the world

• more broadly refers to an area where ideas and innovation spring up and then diffuse

Oscar Holden

• 1886 - 1969

• influential jazz musician and the “Patriarch of Seattle Jazz”

• piano and clarinet player, born in Nashville, Tennessee

• —> Chicago —> Seattle

• received death threats in chicago for playing at whites only venues

• worked in the Seattle shipyards by day and played music in clubs by night

Al Smith

• 1916 - 2008

• part-time photographer who took many iconic photos of the Jackson Street jazz

• press-style camera allowed him to get access to musicians performing the Jackson Street clubs

• took 1000s of photos and documented a pivotal time in Seattle’s music history and the African American community

Blue Laws

• laws in Seattle that made bars close down at early hours

• resulted in after-hours clubs springing up, where people brought their own alcohol