The Harlem Renaissance -

The Harlem Renaissance

An Encyclopedia of Arts, Culture, and History [2 volumes]
Media-Kombination
921 Seiten
2025
Bloomsbury Academic
978-1-4408-6510-7 (ISBN)
239,95 inkl. MwSt
This two-volume encyclopedia provides a comprehensive exploration of the Harlem Renaissance, a period of heightened racial consciousness and artistic production. It highlights artists, historical figures, and writers while providing crucial contextual information about the time.
The Harlem Renaissance was a period of heightened racial consciousness and artistic production. Explore the artists, writers, and important historical figures that shaped this defining moment in African American history.

This essential two-volume encyclopedia examines the Harlem Renaissance through A–Z entries that explore topics such as the art, literature, music, dance, and culture of the period. The entries are accompanied by contextualizing information in the form of topical overview essays, a chronology of key moments, and a selection of primary documents, assisting readers in understanding the origins and development of this culturally significant time.

This resource shines the spotlight on artists, performers, and writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance, such as Zora Neale Hurston and Aaron Douglas, as well as on historical figures and organizations, such as the NAACP, providing cultural context. Entries on important locales and businesses provide readers with a sense of the environment that fostered this cultural renaissance.

Venetria K. Patton is Head of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of English and African American Studies at Purdue University, USA. Kwakiutl L. Dreher is Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.

Historical Overview
Chronology
Art in the Harlem Renaissance
Drama in the Harlem Renaissance
Literature in the Harlem Renaissance
Music in the Harlem Renaissance
Treatments and Analyses of the Harlem Renaissance

Encylopedia Entries
Abbott's Monthly
Abyssinian Baptist Chursh
Actors and Performers
African Blood Brotherhood
African Orthodox Church
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Alhambra Ballroom
Amsterdam News
Apollo Theatre
Armstrong, Louis
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History
Atlanta
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, The
Baker, George (Father Divine)
Baker, Josephine
Barron's Exclusive Club
Barthé Richmond
Bennett, Gwendolyn 1902-1981
Black Bottom, The
Black Christ and Other Poems
Black No More (1931 novel)
Blacker the Berry, The (1929 novel)
Blake, Eubie
Boni & Liveright
Bonner, Marita 1898-1971
Bontemps, Arna 1902-1973
Book of American Negro Poetry (1922 anth)
Boston
Braithwaite, William Stanley 1878-1962
Brawley, Benjamin (1882-1941)
Briggs, Cyril V.
Brownies’ Book
Calloway, Cab
Cane (1923 novel)
Caroling Dusk (1927 anth)
Charleston, The
Charlie Parker
Chicago Renaissance
Chinaberry Tree (1931 novel)
Civic Club dinner
Cold Keener (1930 play)
Coleman, Anita Scott
Color by Countee Cullen 1925
Color Struck
Copper Sun
Comedy American Style (1933 novel)
Communist Party and the Harlem Renaissance
Cotter, Jr., Joseph Seaman
Cotton Club, The
Covarrubias, Miguel
Cowdery, Mae
Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races
Cullen, Countee 1903-1946
Cuney, William Waring
Cuthbert, Marion
Dark Tower, The
Domingo, Wilfred A.
Douglas, Aaron
Du Bois, Shirley Graham
Du Bois, W.E.B. 1868-1963
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice 1875-1935
Ella Fitzgerald -- influence of HR
Ellington, Edward Kennedy (Duke) 1899-1974
Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson
Ethiopian Art Players
Fauset, Jessie Redmon 1882-1961
Federal Writers Project
Fetchit, Stepin (Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (1902-1985)
Fire!!: A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists
Fisher, Rudolph 1897-1934
Fuller, Meta Vaux Warrick
Garvey, Marcus 1887-1940
Gilbert, Mercedes
Gillespie, Dizzy
Gilpin Charles
Good Night Angeline (1919)
Great Migration
Grimkçª Angelina Weld 1880-1958
Handy, W.C.
Half-Century, The
Happy Rhones
Harcourt & Brace
Harper & Brothers
Harlem Hellfighters
Harlem Rent Parties
Harlem Riot 1935
Harlem, NY
Harlem: A Forum of Negro Life (1928 journal)
Harmon Foundation
Hayden, Palmer Cole
Hayford, Gladys May Casely
Heyward, DuBose
Hill, Leslie Pickney
Holiday, Billie
Home to Harlem
Hughes, Langston 1902-1967
Hurston, Zora Neale 1891-1960
Infants of the Spring (1932 novel)
Jackman, Harold
Jim Crow and influence on HR
Johnson, Charles Spurgeon 1893-1956
Johnson, Ellsworth Bumpy
Johnson, Fenton
Johnson, Georgia Douglas 1877-1966
Johnson, Helene 1907-1995
Johnson, Jack 1878-1946
Johnson, James Weldon 1871-1938
Johnson, Sargent Claude
Johnson, William Henry
Jones, Lois Mailou
Julius Rosenwald Fellowship
Jungle Alley
Karamu House
Krigwa Players
Lafayette Theatre
Larsen, Nella 1891-1964
Lawrence, Jacob Armstead
Lee, Canada
Lewis, Theophilus 1891-1974
Lilly Lindo interview, Apollo Theater
Lincoln Theatre
Lippingcott, J.B.
Locke, Alain 1885-1954
Mabley, Jackie Moms
Mason, Charlotte Osgood
Matheus, John F.
McKay, Claude 1889?-1948
Meet the Mamma: Musical Play
Messenger
Micheaux, Oscar
Miller, May
Mills, Florence
Morton, Jelly Roll
Moryck, Brenda
Motley, Jr., Archibald John
Mulatto
Nation, The
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association of Colored Women
National Urban League
Negritude
Negro World
New Masses
New Republic, The
New Negro, The
Newsome, Effie Lee
Nigger Heaven
Not Without Laughter
Nugent, Richard Bruce 1906-1987
Okeh Records
Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life
Owen, Chandler
Pace Phonographic Record Corporation
Passing (1929 novel)
Philadelphia, PA
Pickens, William
Piranean Club
Pittsburgh Courier
Plum Bun
Plumes: A Folk Tragedy
Porgy and Bess
Pot Maker, The
Primary Documents
Quicksand
Rachel
Rainey, Ma
Randolph, A, Philip
Red Summer of 1919
Reiss, Winold
Renaissance Casino and Ballroom
Richardson, Willis 1889-1977
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Bill Bojangles
Saturday Evening Post, The
Savage, Augusta Fells
Savoy Ballroom
Schomburg, Arthur, A.
Schuyler, George Samuel 1895-1977
Scottsboro trial
Shuffle Along
Small's Paradise nightclub
Smith, Albert Alexander
Smith, Bessie
Social Dances and the Harlem Renaissance
Souls of Black Folk, The
Sorbonne
Spence, Eulalie
Spencer, Anne 1882-1975
Spingarn Medal
Springarn, Amy
Spunk (1935)
St. Clair, Stephanie
Still, William Grant
Sugar Cane Club
Survey Graphic
Tanner, Henry Ossawa
The Lindy Hop
The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life
Their Eyes Were Watching God
There is Confusion
Thurman, Wallace 1902-1934
Toomer, Jean 1894-1967
Torrence, Ridgeley
Tropic Death
Tulsa, Oklahoma, Riot
Undertow
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Van Der Zee, James
Van Vechten, Carl 1880-1964
Walrond, Eric 1898-1966
Waring, Laura Wheeler
Washington D.C.
Washington, Booker Taliaferro
Waters, Ethel
Ways of White Folk
Weary Blues, The
Webb, Chick
Wells, James Lesesne
West, Dorothy 1907-1998
White, Walter 1893-1955
Woodruff, Hale Aspacio
Woodson, Carter G.
World War I
WPA Vaudeville Theater Poster, 1935
Wright, Richard Nathaniel
West Indies and the Harlem Renaissance

Bibliography
About the Editors

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.6.2025
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
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