{"id":1501,"date":"2011-02-03T10:36:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T14:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2011-02-03T10:36:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T14:36:41","slug":"february-2011-items-of-the-month-voices-of-the-harlem-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/02\/03\/february-2011-items-of-the-month-voices-of-the-harlem-renaissance\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2011 Item(s) of the Month: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/black_swan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1505\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/black_swan.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/02\/black_swan.jpg 1088w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/02\/black_swan-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/02\/black_swan-1024x993.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2011\/02\/black_swan-309x300.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Explore the Harlem Renaissance through the poetry, novels and music that emerged between 1917 and 1934, a period in American history characterized by an \u201cunprecedented mobilization of talent and group support in the service of a racial arts and letters movement,\u201d according to historian and author David Levering Lewis.\u00a0 First editions by Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Jessie Fauset, Rudolph Fisher, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston, and George Schuyler, as well as original pamphlets, periodicals, audio recordings and reference sources are now available at the Dodd Research Center.\u00a0 The rich collection of materials was recently donated to Archives and Special Collections by Ann and Samuel Charters.<\/p>\n<p>Among the recordings in the collection are record albums featuring poets reading their work and a rare Black Swan recording of Marianna Johnson singing \u201cThe Rosary\u201d and \u201cSorter Miss You\u201d, accompanied by the Black Swan Symphony Orchestra recorded between 1921 and 1922.\u00a0 Black Swan Records, established in January 1921 as a subsidiary of the Pace Phonograph Corporation, was the first record label owned and managed by African-Americans and issued material recorded exclusively by African-American musicians.\u00a0 Board members of the Pace Phonograph Corporation included W. E. B. Du Bois and James Weldon Johnson.\u00a0 The record label was named after the opera singer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, nicknamed \u201cthe Black Swan\u201d.\u00a0 The Black Swan catalog included European classical, jazz and blues.\u00a0 Fletcher Henderson served as the house accompanist.\u00a0 In March 1923 the Pace Phonograph Corp. was renamed the Black Swan Phonograph Co.\u00a0 This was the last year any new records were issued, although Pace reissued Black Swan recordings through 1926.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the Black Swan recording of soprano Georgia Gorham singing \u2018A Little Kind Treatment (Is Exactly What I Need)\u2019 with Maceo Pinkard, composer, issued between May 1921 and June 1922:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/ALittleKindTreatmentisExactlyWhatINeed\">A Little Kind Treatment<\/a>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Watterworth, Curator of Literary, Natural History, and Rare Books Collections<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff Explore the Harlem Renaissance through the poetry, novels and music that emerged between 1917 and 1934, a period in American history characterized by an \u201cunprecedented mobilization of talent and group support in the service of a racial arts and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/02\/03\/february-2011-items-of-the-month-voices-of-the-harlem-renaissance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}