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No. 90-91 (2020): Special Issue - Storied Spaces: Renewing Folkloristic Perspectives on Vernacular Architecture

Work, Play, and Performance in the Southern Tobacco Warehouse

  • Elijah Gaddis
Soumise
avril 15, 2021
Publié-e
2021-04-19

Résumé

Cet article considère les entrepôts de tabac du sud des États-Unis comme étant à la fois des lieux de travail et de divertissement. En abordant sous l’angle de la performance l’étude de l’architecture vernaculaire qui s’enracine dans une méthodologie ethnologique,
cet article avance que ces lieux du travail quotidien avaient un potentiel festif, nonobstant les restrictions induites par la ségrégation spatiale des lois Jim Crow. Il se concentre en particulier sur les soirées de danse qui rassemblaient de nombreux participants dans
ces entrepôts soigneusement décorés pour l’occasion, du début au milieu du XXe siècle. Durant ces soirées de danse, les danseurs noirs détournaient les espaces de travail de l’entrepôt de tabac, restrictifs sur les plans social et économique, en lieux de radicalité
potentielle et de plaisir. Les arguments de cet article sont étayés à la fois par une documentation conventionnelle pour ce qui est de l’architecture, et par les témoignages oraux de divers travailleurs, musiciens et danseurs du monde du tabac, qui ont utilisé ces entrepôts avec des intentions diverses, et souvent conflictuelles. Rassemblés, leurs récits soulignent à la fois la résistance localisée à la ségrégation et l’importance des archives éphémères des histoires et mémoires individuelles dans l’étude de l’architecture vernaculaire historique.

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