{"id":91,"date":"2003-07-01T21:44:17","date_gmt":"2003-07-02T01:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/07\/01\/copacabana\/"},"modified":"2003-07-01T21:44:17","modified_gmt":"2003-07-02T01:44:17","slug":"copacabana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/07\/01\/copacabana\/","title":{"rendered":"Copacabana!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a74'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luc Sante on Arthur Kempton&#8217;s new <i>Boogaloo<\/i>: &#8220;Kempton&#8217;s second major subject, Sam Cooke, emerged from quartet culture and made himself into a bridge, not just between the sacred and the profane but between the black and the white nations, between the &#8216;chitlin circuit&#8217; and the Copacabana.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a picture of Cooke, captioned &#8220;Sam Cooke performing at the Copacabana, New York City, December 11, 1964&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Golly!  Until today I never realized that the Barry Manilow song is about the nightclub in NYC.  Despite the clearly heard lyrics, &#8220;the hottest spot North of Havana&#8221;, I had always envisioned some sort of tropical beachside resort &#8211; someplace like Rio &#8211; certainly in South America.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, there are plenty of Copacabanas in South America too.  Also by the way, despite its <i>tr&egrave;s<\/i> classy ring, &#8220;Copas Cabana&#8221; is unattested in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">The Corpus<\/a>.  &#8220;Copacabanas&#8221; gives several results in Portuguese, Danish and Swedish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luc Sante on Arthur Kempton&#8217;s new Boogaloo: &#8220;Kempton&#8217;s second major subject, Sam Cooke, emerged from quartet culture and made himself into a bridge, not just between the sacred and the profane but between the black and the white nations, between the &#8216;chitlin circuit&#8217; and the Copacabana.&#8221; There&#8217;s a picture of Cooke, captioned &#8220;Sam Cooke performing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}