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Title: When Harlem Was in Vogue by David L. Lewis, David Levering Lewis ISBN: 0-14-026334-9 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A zesty account
Comment: Claude McKay and Jean Toomer helped to launch the Harlem Renaissance and chose to live elsewhere. Sterling Brown denied that a Harlem Renaissance had ever existed. It began as a somewhat forced phenomenon.
DuBois believed the history of the world was the history of groups. War experiences spurred people to seek decisive change. Unfortunately a number of racial incidents took place directly after Word War I. The historian Carter Woodson was witness to a riot in Washington D.C.
Black Harlem ran from 130th to 145th Streets. Jazz and blues in Harlem were produced by persons from the Great Migration--Mamie Smith, Perry Bradford, and others. There were new stars in Harlem. Claude McKay and James Weldon Johnson became personal friends. MacKay's HARLEM SHADOWS appeared in 1922. Countee Cullen said that on the whole he liked CANE by Jean Toomer. Countee Cullen's only serious rival in Harlem was Langston Hughes.
Alain Locke and Charles Johnson, a sociologist, made contributions to the intellectual life of the Harlem leadership. Arna Bontemps and Zora Neale Thurston were also notable figures. Many motives animated the Lost Generation Caucasian supporters. The motives included guilt, Christianity, inherited abolitionism.
There were rent parties in Harlem and other evidence of stress and overcrowding. Nonetheless the twenties was a time of artistic triumph with such musical personalities James P. Johnson, Willie the Lion Smith, Fats Waller, and Duke Ellington seeking and finding engagements. There were success stories. Even in the Depression people were generally well-dressed and happy. Harlem was filled with strivers and professionals.
1925 was year one of the Harlem Renaissance. James Weldon Johnson's ancestors had been free, literate, and prosperous before the Civil War. He and his brother composed an opera. The mid twenties solidified the Harlem Renaissance. Harlem was Afro-America's Paris. LULU BELLE (1926) sent whites to Harlem in unprecedented numbers. Factually speaking, though, most of Harlem was sober and hardworking.
The Rosenwald Fund and the Harmon Fund were influential by promoting and rewarding African American artistic achievement. Alain Locke had been a sort of custodian of the Harlem Renaissance. Claude McKay's last novel appeared in 1933. Sugar Hill, Strivers' Row and the Dunbar were landmarks of the Renaissance. The last novel of the Renaissance was Zora Neale Thurston's JONAH'S GOURD VINE.
The book covers other topics interestingly, revealing many bits of information previously unknown to this reader. Photographs are included and an appendix of sources.
Rating: 1
Summary: Long and Boring
Comment: I had to read this book for a history class in college, and I must say it was a poor choice for the class. The author throws out many obscure names, and expects you to know who they. He goes on and on about the authors of the period and their respective eccentricities. The reader is treated to countless pages about who so-and-so was friends with, and what tea party they attended that evening. It simply fails to help the reader appreciate this remarkable period in America's history.
Rating: 2
Summary: history book for the historians
Comment: This book can be described as a history book for the historians for the simple fact that it has too much information for the regular reader. The book reads more like a text book then anything. The author will mention name after name, but without giving proper introduction of who the people are, leaving the reader lost unless they know their history to a great length. The book also has some shortcomings on how much of it is about harlem, rather it is about the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance. As the preface mentions the book could have been subtitled (or titled) Civil Rights by copywrite. This would have been a more fitting title for the author focuses more on the great literature at the time and its authors then anything else. While the book has a ton of facts, and an indepth look into many works, I failed to gain much insight into the events that the book is writing about.
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Title: The New Negro by Alain Leroy Locke ISBN: 0684838311 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto : Negro New York, 1890-1930 by Gilbert Osofsky ISBN: 1566631041 Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (African American History (Paperback)) by David L. Lewis, David Levering Lewis ISBN: 0140170367 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Nigger Heaven by Carl Van Vechten, Kathleen Pfeiffer ISBN: 0252068602 Publisher: University of Illinois Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White by George Hutchinson ISBN: 0674372638 Publisher: Belknap Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.31 |
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