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Overview
This book covers the black artists of the late 1920s associated with a movement called the Harlem Renaissance. Painters, musicians, actors, and sculptors are included as well as the novelists and poets who made the movement famous.Discusses the rise of the Harlem Renaissance in the early twentieth century and the artists responsible for the art, music, theater, prose, and poetry created in that era.
Editorials
School Library Journal
Gr 8 Up-Jacques covers several aspects of the Harlem Renaissance in separate chapters: poetry, music, prose, theater, visual arts, and the Renaissance abroad. Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston are some of the names that appear. Chapters are generally short and are accompanied by unexceptional black-and-white photographs, many of which look like they might have been publicity shots. Women of the Renaissance are not given the same coverage as men. Although the author cites an impressive bibliography, quotes from primary sources are scarce, except in the poetry chapter. Thus, the text lacks immediacy, and in places, is unpolished. Jim Haskins's The Harlem Renaissance (Millbrook, 1996) does a much better job of capturing the spirit and excitement of this special time in American artistic history.-Marilyn Makowski, Greenwood High School, SCBook Details
Published
October 1, 1996
Publisher
New York : Franklin Watts, c1996.
Pages
128
Format
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ISBN
9780531112724