When Harlem Was in Vogue

Name: When Harlem Was in Vogue
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ISBN: 9780195059694

ISBN-10: 0195059697

ISBN-13: 9780195059694

Edition: 1989

Authors: David Levering Lewis

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Tremendous optimism filled the streets of Harlem during the decade and a half following World War I. Langston Hughes, Eubie Blake, Marcus Garvey, Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Robeson, and countless others began their careers; Afro-America made its first appearance on Broadway; musicians found new audiences in the chic who sought out the exotic in Harlem's whites-only nightclubs; riotous rent parties kept economic realities at bay; and A'Lelia Walker and Carl Van Vechten outdid each other with glittering "integrated" soirees. When Harlem Was in Vogue recaptures the excitement of those times, displaying the intoxicating hope that black Americans could create important art and compel the nation to…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/20/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.38" wide x 8.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface to the Penguin Edition


Preface


We Return Fighting


City of Refuge


Stars


Enter the New Negro


The Six


Nigger Heaven


A Jam of a Party


The Fall of the Manor


It's Dead Now


Notes


Index