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Read their stories, See their works and lives, Hear their voices Zora Neale Hurston Langston Hughes Claude McKay Richard Wright Duke Ellington Jacob Lawrence Ethel Waters Josephine Baker Bessie Smith ?and more Harlem Speaks showcases the artists, writers, poets, and intellectuals behind the stunning outburst of African American culture in the three decades after World War I. Twenty-one experts examine the careers and contributions of Harlem Renaissance writers and poets, critics and political leaders, artists, performers, and musicians. Each biographical and critical essay examines the subjects key works and focuses on the relationship of the subject to the Harlem Renaissance and to the development and expression of African American culture. ?Harlem Speaks speaks of a rollicking, rich time of cultural transformation in which all of us would have wished to live. Cary Wintz and his authoritative contributors have served up a vibrantly incisive panoply of arts and letters and music that makes it possible virtually to do so.? -David Levering Lewis, author of When Harlem Was in Vogue on the CD Hear more than 60 minutes of sound recordings of the voices of the Harlem Renaissance, in music, poetry, interviews, performances, and speeches, bringing the Harlem of legend to vibrant life once again. Also includes a rare, unpublished performance by Eubie Blake and excerpts from interviews conducted by David Levering Lewis, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the W.E.B. Du Bois biographies.
