The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950

by Richard A. Courage, Robert Bone, Robert Bone

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813550440
• ISBN13: 9780813550442
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 17 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher