What’s On the Menu? The American Appetite for French Cabaret!
• April 2, 2024 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Artists, collectors, curators, dance, displays, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, postcards, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian library exhibits
Tags: "Revue Folies Bergere", 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, Ambassadeurs (theatre-restaurant), Aquacade, Beryl Wallace, Billy Rose, Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe (nightclub), Broadway (NYC), Cab Calloway, Cabarets, Cafe Zanzibar (nightclub), Casa Mañana, Chez Paree (nightclub), Chicago, chorus girls, Club Harlem (nightclub), Cotton Club, Dave Wolper's Hurricane Club, Duke Ellington, E. M. Loew, Earl Carroll, Earl Carroll's (supper club-theater), Eastern Steamship Lines, Edith Piaf, exotic dancers, floor shows, Folies Bergere (film: 1936), Frank Sennes' Moulin Rouge (nightclub), French Casino (nightclub), Glamour, Great Depression, Great Lakes Exposition (1936 : Cleveland Ohio), Hollywood, Hollywood Cabaret Restaurant, International Casino (nightclub), Latin Quarter (nightclub), Lou Walters, Maurice Chevalier, menus, Miami Beach, Moulin Rouge, New York City, Nicky Blair's Carnival (dinner club), Paradise Cabaret Restaurant, photograph sleeves, postcards, programs, revues, Rudy Vallee, Sally Rand, showgirls, Texas Centennial Exposition, The Man from the Folies Bergere (film: 1935), Thomas Hunter Henderson, vaccinations, Versailles (nightclub), What's On The Menus (Wolfsonian installation)
Afro-Cuban Dance Music in Hollywood and Mexican Movies
• January 28, 2023 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, bars, collectors, Cuba, curator, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, museums, posters, promotional materials, Puerto Rico, slums, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: "Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)" (song), "El Manisero" [The Peanut Vendor] (song), "Patricia" (song), A Century of Progress International Exposition (Chicago: 1933-1934), Abakuá, actresses, Afro-Cuban jazz, Afro-Cuban polyrhythms, Andrea Queeley, Another Thin Man (film: 1939), ballroom dancing, big bands, cabaret dancing, Carole Lombard, cha cha cha, Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! (film: 1956), Chano Pozo, Chicago World's Fair (1933/34), conga drums, conga line dancing, Cuba, Cuban exiles, Cuban expatriates, Cuban Revolution of 1933, Cuban Revolution of 1959, dancers, danzón, Desi Arnaz (1917-1986), Desiderio Alberto Arnaz II, Dizzy Gillespie, Dominicans, Don Azpiazú and his Havana Casino Orchestra, El Bar de Hilda, ephemera, Eva Silot-Bravo, film-noirs, Francis Xavier Luca, George Raft, Harlem, Havana (Cuba), Havana-Madrid (nightclub), Holiday in Havana (film : 1949), Hollywood movies, I Love Lucy (television series), Jane Powell, Justo Ángel Azpiazú (1893–1943), La Dolce Vita (film : 1960), Latin jazz, Lawrence Tibbett, Lupe Velez, Luxury Liner (film : 1948), Margo, Matanzas (Cuba), melodramas, Mexican movies, Mexico, music, New York City, Nuyoricans, Pérez Prado, Perez Prado, Puerto Ricans, race, Racial prejudice, racism, Ramona Ajón, reggaeton, René and Estela, René Rivero Guillén, rhumba, Robin Moore, Rock & Roll, Rock Around the Clock (film), rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), rumba dancers, rumberas films, rumberos, salsa, Santiago de Cuba, Sheet music covers, Silvano “Chori” Shueg, singers, slums, solares, soneros, swing, The Beat Goes On (Panel discussion), The Cuban Love Song (film: 1931), Tierra Brava (film : 1938), timbalero, timbaleros, Too Many Girls (film: 1940), Turn the Beat Around (Wolfsonian exhibition : Oct. 2022-April 2023), Un Extraño en la Escalera [A Stranger on the Stairs] (film : 1955), Underwater! (film : 1954), Xavier Cugat (1900-1990)
Spotlight on Machito and the Titos–The Three Kings of Mambo By Far
• January 6, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, collectors, Cuba, curators, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, interns, library donors, museums, Puerto Rico, The Wolfsonian Library
Tags: "King of the Mambo", Afro-Cuban dance culture, Afro-Cuban jazz, album cover art, album covers, arrangers, Arsenio Rodríguez, Big 3 Palladium Orchestra, Birdland (Nightclub), Cab Calloway, Celia Cruz, cha cha cha, Chano Pozo, Charlie Parker, Club Cuba, Club Cuba (Nightclub), composers, concerts, Cuban bandleaders, Cuban bebop, Cubans, Cubop City (Nightclub), Dizzy Gillespie, drummers, ephemera, Fania All-Stars, Francis Xavier Luca, Frank Grillo, Harlem Renaissance, Israel ("Cachao") López Valdés (1918–2008), Jazz, jazz musicians, La Lupe, Machito, Machito and His Afro-Cubans, mambo, mambo madness, Mario Bauzá, Miguelito Valdés, New York City, Nuyoricans, Orchestra Siboney, Palladium (Dance hall), percussionists, Perez Prado, Puerto Rican bandleaders, Puerto Ricans, RCA Victor, Sheet music covers, Stan Kenton, the "Borscht Belt", the Catskills, The Peanut Vendor (song), The Three Kings, Three Kings Day, Tico Records, timbaleros, Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez, Turn the Beat Around (Wolfsonian exhibition : Oct. 2022-April 2023), United Artists Records, Vicki Gold Levi, Victoria Calveira
Turning the Beat Around: Spotlight on Xavier Cugat
• November 19, 2022 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, collectors, Cuba, curators, dance, donations, exhibitions, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, interns, library donors, museums, photography, rare books and special collections library, restaurants, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: A Date With Judy (1948), Abbe Lane (singer and actress), Afro-Cuban music, album covers, bandleaders, Bathing Beauty (1944), Cafe Trocadero (dinner club), caricatures, caricaturists, Carmen Castillo, Casa Cugat (dinner club), Catalonia, cha cha cha, Charlie Chaplin, Charo (singer), Chicago Syndicate (1955), chihuahuas, classical violin, Cocoanut Grove (nightclub), conga, conga drums, Conga-land (songbook), Conrado Walter Massaguer, Cuba, Cuban bandleaders, Cuban musicians, Desi Arnaz (1917-1986), El Grafico (magazine), Enrico Caruso, Entertainers, female musicians, Francis Xavier Luca, George Raft, Go West Young Man (film: 1936), Holiday in Mexico (1946), Hollywood, In Gay Madrid (film: 1930), Lorraine Allen, Los Angeles, Luxury Liner (1948), mambo, Margo (dancer), Miguelito Valdés, musicians, My Sister Eileen (film: 1942), Neptune's Daughter (1949), New York City, On an Island With You (1948), Orquesta Sinfónica del Teatro Nacional (Havana), photographs, Rosalind Russell, rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), Rumba Is My Life (autobiography), Sheet music covers, singers, Starlight Roof (Waldorf-Astoria Hotel), Ten Cents a Dance (film: 1931), The Gigalos (septet), The Heat's On (1943), The Xavier Cugat Show (1957), Tito Rodríguez, Turn the Beat Around (Wolfsonian exhibition : Oct. 2022-April 2023), violinists, Waldorf-Astoria, Week-End at the Waldorf (1945), wives, Xavier Cugat (1900-1990), Yma Sumac, You Were Never Lovelier (film : 1942), You Were Never Lovelier (film: 1942)
Turning the Beat Around: Spotlight on Chano Pozo
• November 9, 2022 • 1 CommentPosted in 1940s, 1950s, collectors, Cuba, dance, donations, exhibitions, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, interns, library donors, museums, photography, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: "Bang Que Choque" (song), "Blen Blen Blen" (song), "Manteca" (song), "Nague" (song), "Sono el Clarin" (song), Abakuá, Afro-Cuban dance culture, Afro-Cuban jazz, Afro-Cuban music, afrocubanismo, album covers, Amado Trinidad Velazco, Anselmo Sacasas (Cuban pianist and arranger), Arsenio Rodríguez, “Ariñáñara" (song), “Conga de Los Dandys" (song), “Parampampin" (song), Bal Nègre (dance revue), Carnegie Hall, carnival parades, Carteles (magazine), Chano Pozo, Chano Pozo y su Orquesta, Chico y Rita (animated film : 2010), Coda Records, Colon Cemetery (Havana), comparsas, conga, conga drummers, conga drums, Conjunto Azul, Cuba, Cuban bebop, Cuban composers, Cuban musicians, Cuban singers, Cubop, descargas (jam sessions), Dizzy Gillespie, drummers, El Ataúd, El África, Entertainers, Ernesto Roca, ethnomusicology, exhibitions, Félix Chappottin Lage, Francis Xavier Luca, Harlem, Hotel Nacional Orquesta, Hotel Presidente (Havana), installations, Jack Harris' La Conga (nightclub), Jazz, Joe Loco Quintet, Jovenes del Cayo septet, jukeboxes, Leonardo Timor, Leonardo Timor (band leader), Los Dandy de Belén (comparsa), Los Melodicos (band), Luciano (“Chano”) Pozo González, Machito, Machito and His Afro-Cubans, Mario Bauza, Miguelito Valdés, musicians, Musicraft (record company), New York City, orisha, Orquesta Casino de la Playa, Pan-Art (record label), percussionists, photographs, religious Afro-Cuban music, RHC Cadena Azul radio, Roxy Theatre, royalty disputes, rumba, rumba dancers, rumbero, Santería, Santo Ramírez (Cuban percussionist), secular Afro-Cuban music, segregation, singers, slums, solares, tenements, Tito Rodríguez, Tropicana (Nightclub), Turn the Beat Around (Wolfsonian exhibition : Oct. 2022-April 2023), Vicki Gold Levi, Victor (record company), vocalists, Xavier Cugat (1900-1990), Yoruba religion
Once More, The Lights Are Bright On Broadway
• September 15, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, American war propaganda, Artists, Broadway, collectors, donations, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, FTP, gifts, graphic arts, Great Depression, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, playbills, programs, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Broadway, burlesque, Christopher Marlow, Circuses, coronavirus, Delta variant, Doctor Faustus, drama, Eugene O'Neill, face masks, Federal Theatre Project (FTP), flu, Francis Xavier Luca, George Bernard Shaw, Great Depression, Great White Way, Holland Robinson, Jolsons Theatre, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), musicals, New York City, Orson Welles (1915-1985), pandemics, pneumonia, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), pulp paperbacks, Sheet music covers, Shubert Theatre, Spanish Influenza epidemic, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, theater district, Theatre Magazine, This Is the Army, Vaudeville, virtual library displays, William Shakespeare, Zigfeld Follies
The Streets and Faces of Chas Laborde (1886–1941)
• February 28, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, Artists, book art, Broadway, collectors, First World War (1914-1918), France, Francis Xavier Luca, Great Depression, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Occupied France, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: 20th century, airports, Berlin, book illustrators, Broadway, cafe life, Chas Laborde (1886-1941), cityscapes, Colette, commercial boulevards, crowd scenes, dance halls, Ecole de Patience (book), engraving, etching, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Carco (1886-1958), French authors, French illustrators, French soldiers, Gus Bofa (1883-1968), illustrations, Jean Giraudoux, L'Assiette au Beurre (magazine), L'Homme Traque (book), L'Inflation Sentimentale (book), La Baionnette (magazine), La Chronique filme du mois (magazine), landscapes, Le Rire (magazine), Le Rire Rouge (magazine), Librairie Walden, London, Metro subway, New York City, nightlife, Opera, outdoor cafes, Paris, Paris-Midi (magazine), Paul Morand, pen and ink drawings, pencil sketches, Pierre Falké (1884-1947), Pierre Mac Orlan (1882-1970), portraits, promenades, prostitution, Salon des Artistes Humoristes, Satire, Sketchbooks, Social satire, Societe des Dessinateurs Humoristes, Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Streets and faces, streetscapes, Tendres Stocks (books), theatre district, Trench warfare, Valery Larbaud, Vanity Fair (magazine), virtual book fairs, war artists, War in art
Love to Hear Percussion
• May 8, 2020 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1940s, 1950s, African American History, Cuba, dance, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, postcards, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: Africa, African drumming, Afro-Cuban jazz, Alexandra O'Neale, Bo Didley, bongos, Buddy Rich, Chano Pozo, Charlie Parker, clave, covid 19, Cuba, Dizzy Gillespie, drumming, drums, Entertainment, Haiti, Haitian Revolt, Havana (Cuba), isolation, Jazz, Jelly Roll Morton, Louisiana, Machito, mambo, Mario Bauza, New Orleans (Louisiana), New York City, Palladium, percussion, record jackets, Saint-Domingue, slave trade, slavery, social distancing, Sound recordings, sugar cane plantations, The Beatles, trumpet players
The Artwork and Caricatures of Conrado Walter Massaguer
• May 31, 2019 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Artists, collectors, Cuba, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, promotional materials, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian staff, World's fairs
Tags: "new woman", Advertisements, Allied leaders, Art directors, artists, Bacardi, bellboys, Benito Mussolini, bobbed hair, Calvin Coolidge, caricatures, caricaturists, carousels, Carteles (magazine), Casino Nacional (Havana Cuba), celebrities, Censorship, Charles Dana Gibson, Charlie Chaplin, Che Guevara, Collier's (magazine), Conrado W. Massaguer, Cosmo Hamilton's People Worth Talking About (book), Cuba, Cuban pavilion, Cuban presidents, Cuban Republic, Cubans, Delphic Studio (New York City), dominos, El Figaro (magazine), Emilio Cueto, Fidel Castro, flappers, Fulgencio Batista, Gerardo Machado, Ghandi, Gibson Girls, Grafico (magazine), Great Depression, Greta Garbo, Guignol (book), Havana, Havana (Cuba), Havana Ateneo, high society, honeymoon, Jaime Valls, Keseven Anuncios (Advertising firm), King Features Syndicate, La Primera Exposicion de Humor, Laredo Bru, League of Nations, Leonard Finger, Life (magazine), Magazines, Maltina, Mana-Zucca, Mario G. Menocal, Massa-Girls, Maurice Chevelier, Mercurio (Advertising firm), Merida, merry-go-rounds, Mexico, Miami Music Club, Mimi Aguglia, Minoristas (group of artists), modernists, murals, National Recovery Administration (NRA), New Deal, New York City, New York Military Academy, New York World's Fair (1939-1940), NRA, Oscar Massaguer, publishers, Ramiro Fernandez, revolutionaries, Rudyard Kipling, rumba dancers, rumberas, Santa Claus, sexual liberation, Sheet music covers, Social (magazine), Son Cubano, Stock Market Crash, The Miami News (newspaper), The New Tropic, The New York World's Fair (1939-40), Today (magazine), tourism, tourist trade, tourists, trend-setters, Waldorf-Astoria, women, world leaders, Yucatan
LOU REED: A WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY TRIBUTE
• October 29, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, book art, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Jews, leftist artists, museums, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, photography, political art, racism, rare books and special collections library, Scottsboro Trial, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: African-Americans, American Artists' Congress, Book jackets, boxing, Breadlines, burlesque, Charles Laborde (1886-1941), Clare Veronica Hope Leighton, Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), Comrade Gulliver, Dirty Boulevard (song), Dust jackets, Erskine Caldwell, Harlem Renaissance, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Ida Abelman, J. B. Turnbull, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Lou Reed (1942-2013), low life, Lucienne Bloch, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), Miss Liberty, New York City, Peter Berent, racism, Rues et visages de New-York, Song lyrics, Statue of Liberty National Monument, urban life, Winold Reiss (1886-1953)
Wolfsonian-FIU Library 