TY - BOOK AU - Watson,Steven TI - The Harlem renaissance: hub of African-American culture, 1920 -1930 T2 - Circles of the twentieth century SN - 0679423702 AV - NX 512.3 W342h 1995 U1 - 700.899607307471 PY - 1995/// CY - New York PB - Pantheon Books KW - African American arts KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - 20th century KW - Harlem Renaissance KW - Artes afroamericanos KW - Nueva York (Estado) KW - Nueva York KW - Siglo XX KW - Identidad cultural KW - Cultura afroamericana KW - Primera Jornada de Catalogacion KW - Harlem (New York, N.Y.) KW - Intellectual life N1 - Incluye bibliografía e índice (p. [183]-191); The new negro is born --- Harlem is fashionable --- After the renaissance N2 - It was W.E.B. DuBois who paved the way with his essays and his magazine The Crisis, but the Harlem Renaissance was mostly a literary and intellectual movement whose best known figures include Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer. Their work ranged from sonnets to modernist verse to jazz aesthetics and folklore, and their mission was race propaganda and pure art. Adding to their visibility were famous jazz musicians, producers of all-black revues, and bootleggers. Now available in paperback, this richly-illustrated book contains more than 70 black-and-white photographs and drawings. Steven Watson clearly traces the rise and flowering of this movement, evoking its main figures as well as setting the scene--describing Harlem from the Cotton Club to its literary salons, from its white patrons like Carl van Vechten to its most famous entertainers such as Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, Ethel Waters, Alberta Hunter, Fats Waller, Bessie Smith, and Louis Armstrong among many others. He depicts the social life of working-class speakeasies, rent parties, gay and lesbian nightlife, as well as the celebrated parties at the twin limestone houses owned by hostess A'Lelia Walker. This is an important history of one of America's most influential cultural phenomenons UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random049/94030380.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0904/94030380-b.html ER -