num_pages: 302
description: The Muse in Bronzeville a dynamic reappraisal of a neglected period in African American cultural history is the first comprehensive critical study of the creative awakening that occurred on Chicago's South Side from the early 1930s to the cold war. Coming of age during the hard Depression years and in the wake of the Great Migration this generation of Black creative artists produced works of literature music and visual art fully comparable in distinction and scope to the achievements of the Harlem Renaissance.This highly informative and accessible work enhanced with reproductions of paintings of the same period examines Black Chicago's Renaissance through richly anecdotal profiles of such figures as Richard Wright Gwendolyn Brooks Margaret Walker Charles White Gordon Parks Horace Cayton Muddy Waters Mahalia Jackson and Katherine Dunham. Robert Bone and Richard A. Courage make a powerful case for moving Chicago's Bronzeville long overshadowed by New York's Harlem from a peripheral to a central position within African American and American studies.
language: English
title: The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950
publisher: Rutgers University Press