And it's not monolithic." The people and places associated with the Harlem Renaissance are a roll call for American letters, art and thought: musicians Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong ...

The Harlem Renaissance changed everything, from the civil rights movement to the evolution of sociology to the entire trajectory of the arts. It showed that “popular music” could be just as ...

The Upper Manhattan neighborhood was the birthplace and namesake of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship ...

Over roughly two decades, Harlem became home to Black artists, musicians, authors and socialites ... In the years since, the Renaissance has increasingly been seen as having created “modes ...

The Harlem Renaissance was a golden age of Black culture. An iconic period of our history, the time between 1920 and 1937 gave birth to Black literature, art, fashion and music that left a lasting ...

New York’s music scene was a crucial part of the Harlem Renaissance. Ballrooms, speakeasies, and juke joints took center stage. A number of massive dance halls became centers for nightlife ...

The Harlem Renaissance was a period when arts, literature, music and cinema flourished in the Black community of Harlem, New York. In the early to mid-1900s, Black culture and pride blossomed within ...

Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven has announced its 2025-26 season of five productions, one of which was adapted by Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston and considered lost. "Spunk, a play ...

This course will introduce students to African-American fiction, drama, poetry, nonfiction, art, music, and film of the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance marks a seminal historical moment in ...

The second exhibit drew upon Special Collections’ significant selection of music, monographs and more from the Harlem Renaissance. The current exhibition, a partnership between UVA Library and the ...