The muse in Bronzeville [electronic resource] : African American creative expression in Chicago, 1932-1950 / Robert Bone and Richard A. Courage ; foreword by Amritjit Singh.
Bone, Robert, 1924-2007.; Courage, Richard A., 1946-
2011
PS285.C47 B66 2011eb
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Title The muse in Bronzeville [electronic resource] : African American creative expression in Chicago, 1932-1950 / Robert Bone and Richard A. Courage ; foreword by Amritjit Singh.
Author Bone, Robert, 1924-2007.
ISBN 9780813550732 (electronic bk.)
0813550432
0813550440
9780813550435
9780813550442
Publication Details New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xx, 302 p.) : ill. (some col.)
Call Number PS285.C47 B66 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9/977311
Summary The Muse in Bronzeville, a dynamic reappraisal of a neglected period in African American cultural history, is the first comprehensive critical study of the creative awakening that occurred on Chicago's South Side from the early 1930s to the cold war. Coming of age during the hard Depression years and in the wake of the Great Migration, this generation of Black creative artists produced works of literature, music, and visual art fully comparable in distinction and scope to the achievements of the Harlem Renaissance. This highly informative and accessible work, enhanced with reproductions of paintings of the same period, examines Black Chicago's "Renaissance" through richly anecdotal profiles of such figures as Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker, Charles White, Gordon Parks, Horace Cayton, Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson, and Katherine Dunham. Robert Bone and Richard A. Courage make a powerful case for moving Chicago's Bronzeville, long overshadowed by New York's Harlem, from a peripheral to a central position within African American and American studies.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Courage, Richard A., 1946-
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Pt. 1. An account of origins
The Tuskegee connection
Charles S. Johnson and the Parkian Tradition
The new negro in Chicago
Pt. 2. Bronzeville's social muse
Year of transition
Birthing the blues and other Black musical forms
Bronzeville and the documentary spirit
The documentary eye
Bronzeville's "writing clan"
Bronzeville and the novel
Bronzeville and the poets
The wheel turns
Appendix A: artists of Bronzeville
Appendix B: African Americans employed by Illinois Writers' Project.

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