THE POWER OF PRIDE, STYLEMAKERS AND RULEBREAKERS OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Marks, Carole & Diana Edkins

ISBN 10: 0609600966 / ISBN 13: 9780609600962

Editore: Crown Publishers, New York, 1999

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Clean red paper covered boards with gilt title on spine & Front cover. Endpaper decorated with 1932 Night Club Map of Harlem by E. Simms Campbell. Pictorial double title page. BW photograph illustrations. Clean & intact NF dust jacket. Josephine Baker; Ethel Waters; Louis Armstrong; Bessie Smith; Duke Ellington; Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, etc. Afro-American; BW Photograph Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 272 pages. Codice articolo 14663

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Titolo: THE POWER OF PRIDE, STYLEMAKERS AND ...

Casa editrice: Crown Publishers, New York

Data di pubblicazione: 1999

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Near Fine

Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine

Edizione: First Edition.

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Riassunto:

An enlightening overview of the Harlem Renaissance explores the literary and artistic movement that pioneered a new image of African-American culture and the diverse individuals who played key roles in it, including Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, James Weldon Johnson, and Walter White. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

L'autore:

Carole Marks is a professor of sociology and the director of Black America Studies at the University of Delaware. She is a former fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University and the author of Farewell, We're Good and Gone: The Great Black Migration as well as A History of African Americans of Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore. She lives in Newark, Delaware.

Diana Edkins is a curator of photographic collections and exhibitions. Known for her exacting eye and thorough knowledge of photographic imagery, she coauthored The Power of Style and was the photographic editor for On the Edge: The First One Hundred Years of Vogue. Among other projects, she is currently the archivist for the Barnes Foundation. She lives in Westfield, New Jersey.