The Harlem Renaissance - An Annotated Reference Guide for Student Research

List of contents

Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I Historical and Biographical References
1 -Historical Overview
Disillusionment
The Great Migration
Mecca for the Arts
Decline
Arthur Schomburg and the 135th Street Library
Bibliography
2 -Cultural and Biographical References
Bibliography
PART II Notable Contributors
3 -Major Influences
Jessie Fauset
Charles S. Johnson
Alain Locke
Carl Van Vechten
Walter White
Bibliography
4 -Political Activists
W. E. B. Du Bois
Marcus Garvey
James Weldon Johnson
A. Philip Randolph
Walter White
Bibliography
5 -Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Marian Anderson
Josephine Baker
Jessie Fauset
Alberta Hunter
Zora Neale Hurston
Nella Larsen
Florence Mills
Augusta Savage
Bessie Smith
Ethel Waters
Elida Webb
Bibliography
PART III Literature and Writing
6 -Literature
Salons
Countee Cullen
Jessie Fauset
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Nella Larsen
Claude McKay
Wallace Thurman
Bibliography
7 -Periodicals
Bibliography
8 -Quotations
Bibliography
PART IV Visual Arts
9 -Art
Aaron Douglas
Sargent Johnson
Archibald Motley
Augusta Savage
Bibliography
10 -Films and Film Companies
Bibliography
11 -Photography
James Van Der Zee
Carl Van Vechten
Bibliography
PART V The Performing Arts
12 -Blues
Bibliography
13 -Jazz
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Fletcher Henderson
Fats Waller
Bibliography
14 -Classical and Concert Music
Marian Anderson
Roland Hayes
Paul Robeson
William Grant Still
Bibliography
15 -Dance and Dancers
The Dance Craze
Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates
Bill Robinson
Elida Webb
Bibliography
16 -Theatre
Bibliography
PART VI Sports and Entertainment
17 -Sports
Bibliography
18 -Apollo Theatre
Bibliography
19 -Cotton Club
Bibliography
20 -Entertainers
Josephine Baker
Florence Mills
Ethel Waters
Bibliography
Index
Figures
1.1-135th St. and Lenox Avenue, 1919
3.1-Walter White
4.1-Marcus Garvey's wedding photograph, taken Christmas, 1919
5.1-Jessie Fauset, painted by Laura Wheeler Waring
5.2-Ethel Waters
7.1-W. E. B. Du Bois and publication staff in The Crisis office
9.1-Portrait of Langston Hughes by Richmond Barthé
10.1-Nina Mae McKinney and Paul Robeson in Sanders of the River
12.1-Bessie Smith
13.1-Duke Ellington
15.1-Peg Leg Bates
18.1-The Apollo Theatre, 1930s
19.1-Cotton Club Interior
20.1-Josephine Baker

About the author

MARIE E. RODGERS is Librarian at Frederick Douglass Academy, New York, New York.

Product details

• Authors: Marie Rodgers, Rodgers Marie
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.1998
• EAN: 9781563085802
• ISBN: 978-1-56308-580-2
• No. of pages: 139
• Weight: 397 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; USA, Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, REFERENCE / Bibliographies & Indexes, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, United States of America, USA, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Demonstrations & protest movements, Black & Asian Studies, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Bibliographies, catalogues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General