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Duke versus Tito: Aesthetic Conflict in East Harlem, New York
Author(s) -
Sharman Russell Leigh
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1525/var.2002.18.1.3
Subject(s) - citation , art history , history , performance art , library science , cartography , classics , computer science , geography
In the early 1990s, musician Bobby Short lobbied the city to redirect traffic around a small brick plaza on the corner of Firth Avenue and 11 Oth Street. On one side of the plaza, Short erected a 20-foot high bronze memorial to friend and composer, Duke Ellington. The site anchored the southwest corner of Harlem, the Manhattan neighborhood where Duke Ellington reigned as the most influential musician in the capital of black America.