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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.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Amritjit Singh
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. An Account of Origins
1. The Tuskegee Connection
2. Charles S. Johnson and the Parkian Tradition
3. The New Negro in Chicago
Part II. Bronzeville's Social Muse
4. Year of Transition
5. Birthing the Blues and Other Black Musical Forms
6. Bronzeville and the Documentary Spirit
7. The Documentary Eye
8. Bronzeville's "Writing Clan"
9. Bronzeville and the Novel
10. Bronzeville and the Poets
11. The Wheel Turns
Appendix A: Artists of Bronzeville
Appendix B: African Americans Employed by Illinois Writers' Project
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
