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What Was the Harlem Renaissance?

by Sherri L. Smith
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In this audiobook from the #1 New York Times bestselling series, learn how this vibrant Black neighborhood in upper Manhattan became home to the leading Black writers, artists, and musicians of the 1920s and 1930s.
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.
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Series: What Was? Publisher: Books on Tape Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9780593455067
  • File size: 31026 KB
  • Release date: December 28, 2021
  • Duration: 01:04:38

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780593455067
  • File size: 31031 KB
  • Release date: December 28, 2021
  • Duration: 01:05:38
  • Number of parts: 1

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History Juvenile Nonfiction Multi-Cultural Geography

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English

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Lexile® Measure:910
Text Difficulty:4-5

In this audiobook from the #1 New York Times bestselling series, learn how this vibrant Black neighborhood in upper Manhattan became home to the leading Black writers, artists, and musicians of the 1920s and 1930s.
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.
Expand title description text
History Juvenile Nonfiction Multi-Cultural Geography
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Books on Tape
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9780593455067
    File size: 31026 KB
    Release date: December 28, 2021
    Duration: 01:04:38

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9780593455067
    File size: 31031 KB
    Release date: December 28, 2021
    Duration: 01:05:38
    Number of parts: 1

  • Creators
  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    Lexile® Measure: 910
    Text Difficulty: 4-5