{"product_id":"the-muse-in-bronzeville-robert-bone-9780813550442","title":"The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Muse in Bronzeville\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Bone, Richard A. Courage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813550440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813550442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2012","brand":"Robert Bone","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45896486158591,"sku":"9780813550442","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e3b147f7-31ab-477a-a597-84520770c61c.jpg?v=1721371528","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-muse-in-bronzeville-robert-bone-9780813550442","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}