The muse in Bronzeville [electronic resource] : African American creative expression in Chicago, 1932-1950 / Robert Bone and Richard A. Courage ; foreword by Amritjit Singh.

9780813550732 (electronic bk.)
0813550432
0813550440
9780813550435
9780813550442

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.

English

1 online resource (xx, 302 p.) : ill. (some col.)

PS285.C47 B66 2011eb

810.9/977311

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.

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