Gladys Bentley, a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, began her blues career singing at rent parties (held ... American History and Culture Letter to Paul Kalmanovitz from the Musicians' Protective ...

The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a ... On October 1, 1941, a group of musicians recorded "King Joe (Joe Louis Blues)." Jazz pianist and band leader Count Basie wrote the music ...

In 1926, poet, playwright and activist Langston Hughes published a piece in The Nation that is considered the manifesto of the Harlem Renaissance, writing: “The younger Negro artists who create ...

The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a ... On October 1, 1941, a group of musicians recorded "King Joe (Joe Louis Blues)." Jazz pianist and band leader Count Basie wrote the music ...