

What Was the Harlem Renaissance?
Author: Sherri L. Smith, Who HQ
Series: What Was?
Narrator: Tashi Thomas
Unabridged: 1 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Listening Library
Published: 12/28/2021
Synopsis
Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in nightclubs and the 24-hours-a-day bustle of the famous Black neighborhood of Harlem in uptown Manhattan. It was a dazzling time when there was an outpouring of the arts of African Americans--the poetry of Langston Hughes; the novels of Zora Neale Hurston; the sculptures of Augusta Savage and that brand-new music called jazz as only Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong could play it. Author Sherri Smith traces Harlem's history all the way to its seventeenth-century roots, and explains how the early-twentieth-century Great Migration brought African Americans from the deep South to New York City and gave birth to the golden years of the Harlem Renaissance.