Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance [With CD]

Harlem Speaks showcases the lives and works of the artists, writers and intellectuals behind the stunning outburst of African American culture in the three decades after World War I. In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Poetry Speaks, the book combines each subject's key works with biographical and critical essays by leading Harlem Renaissance authority Cary Wintz and other experts. The integrated audio CDs feature music, poetry and literary readings, interviews, radio broadcasts, discussions and speeches, bringing the Harlem of legend to vibrant life once again.

Hear, see and read the best of:

Langston Hughes

Claude McKay

Zora Neale Hurston

Richard Wright

Duke Ellington

Ethel Waters

Josephine Baker

Marcus Garvey

Alain Locke

and more

The audio also includes never-before-released interviews conducted by Pulitzer Prizewinning author David Levering Lewis. Evocative and encompassing, Harlem Speaks places you at the zenith of this vital cultural movement.

• Author
• Cary Wintz

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 502

• Publisher
• Sourcebooks Mediafusion

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781402204364

• Genres
• history, music, biography, art, literature, american

• Release date
• 2006