The Harlem Renaissance was one of the richest, most vibrant, and most culturally generative artistic periods in American history and the work that emerged from that period continues to shape the landscape of American arts and letters today. In this episode, we’re going to explore some of the writers, artists, and musicians who turned Harlem into a world-renowned hub of art and culture, and delve into the factors that brought them all together in the first place.
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VIDEO SOURCES
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/richmond-barthe-27551
https://www.howardgreenberg.com/artists/james-van-der-zee
https://danforth.framingham.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/TMA.SeptOct20-REV.pdf
https://poets.org/poet/langston-hughes
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/10/05/arturo-schomburg-his-life-and-legacy
https://www.naacp.org/naacp-history-james-weldon-johnson/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Harlem-poem-by-Hughes
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46548/harlem
https://www.biography.com/activist/walter-white
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gwendolyn-Bennett
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zora-Neale-Hurston
https://music.si.edu/story/jazz
https://www.pcs.org/archive/blog/item/under-the-influence-of-the-blues#:~:text=Almost%20every%20genre%20of%20popular,and%20style%20to%20blues%20music.
https://wmich.edu/mus-gened/mus150/CB-Ellington.htm
https://www.rbsclibrary.com/langston-hughes.html
https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200038834/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eubie-Blake
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/countee-cullen
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/claude-mckay
Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (New York: Pantheon Books, 1998).
Cheryl Wall, Women of the Harlem Renaissance (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).
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