Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance

Awards:   Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (History) 2007 Commended for IndieFab awards (History) 2006
Author:   Cary D. Wintz
Publisher:   Sourcebooks, Inc
ISBN:  

9781402204364


Pages:   502
Publication Date:   20 December 2006
Format:   Mixed media product
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance


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  • Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (History) 2007
  • Commended for IndieFab awards (History) 2006

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Presents twenty-one essays that discuss the lives and accomplishments of important literary, musical, artistic, and political figures of the Harlem Renaissance, including Langston Hughes, Bessie Smith, Josephine Baker, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey.

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Author:   Cary D. Wintz
Publisher:   Sourcebooks, Inc
Imprint:   Sourcebooks, Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.862kg
ISBN:  

9781402204364


ISBN 10:   1402204361
Pages:   502
Publication Date:   20 December 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

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This admirable project is indeed a living history. Wintz (Texas Southern Univ.) and his collaborators combed the collections of the Smithsonian Institute and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and found rare sound recordings and photographs of important figures of the Harlem Renaissance, among them Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, and Bessie Smith. Examining the politics, literature, music, and visual and performing arts of the new Negro, the book contains chapters on individual figures of the period. As they move through the text, readers are guided to specific tracks on the CD, where they may hear the artist's own voice. So, for example, the chapter on Marcus Garvey features a 21-page illustrated overview of Garvey's life and career, and the CD includes excerpts from two 1921 speeches supporting the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Readers new to the Harlem Renaissance will find the insightful written texts informative and accessible. More knowledgeable scholars will find little new in the biographies but will be mesmerized by Countee Cullen reading from his poem Heritage and Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five singing I'm Not Rough in 1927. Summing Up: Essential. All readers; all levels.


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