Event Title
Community and Artistic Movements: Tenement Houses in New York City's Lower East Side
Location
Diamond 123
Start Date
30-4-2015 1:00 PM
End Date
30-4-2015 3:55 PM
Project Type
Presentation
Description
In this presentation I will explore the history of New York Citys Lower East Side residents, living in tenement houses in the nineteenth century, and the cultures and artistic movements stemming from their experiences. Some of the questions I seek to answer include: what cultures were created in these nineteenth century tenement houses? Why were tenements typically Jewish and what effect did that perspective have on the emergent culture? In what ways did tenement culture produce or inspire artistic movements in this period? What were these artistic movements responding too? How was the larger American culture at work in these spaces and how were both tenement culture and mainstream American culture responding to one another?
Faculty Sponsor
Laura Saltz
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. American Studies Program
CLAS Field of Study
Interdisciplinary Studies
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1110
Community and Artistic Movements: Tenement Houses in New York City's Lower East Side
Diamond 123
In this presentation I will explore the history of New York Citys Lower East Side residents, living in tenement houses in the nineteenth century, and the cultures and artistic movements stemming from their experiences. Some of the questions I seek to answer include: what cultures were created in these nineteenth century tenement houses? Why were tenements typically Jewish and what effect did that perspective have on the emergent culture? In what ways did tenement culture produce or inspire artistic movements in this period? What were these artistic movements responding too? How was the larger American culture at work in these spaces and how were both tenement culture and mainstream American culture responding to one another?
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/210