Download or read book In the Spirit of Harlem written by Naomi Fertitta and published by Editions Assouline. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its incredible history, cultural richness, musical heritage, and renowned cuisine, Harlem is undoubtedly one of the most intoxicating New York City communities.This book takes readers on both a written and visual journey to pious churches, landmark architecture, sparkling clubs, vibrant theaters, and bustling restaurants. For native New Yorkers and visitors alike, In the Spirit of Harlem paints a colorful picture of one of America's most fascinating neighborhoods. The book includes a foreword by chef Marcus Samuelsson and a directory comprising Fertitta's recommendations.
Download or read book The Spirit of Harlem written by Craig Marberry and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour of Harlem combines photographs with interviews to profile a community in transition, as money pours in to revitalize a once decaying cityscape, a situation that threatens the homes and livelihoods of long-time residents.
Download or read book Hirschfeld s Harlem written by Al Hirschfeld and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema. This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawings by the famed illustrator depict the music, theater, performers, culture, and moods of Harlem, accompanied by commentary by such notables as Savion Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Howard Dodson, Rev. James A. Forbes Jr., Chester Higgins Jr., Geoffrey Holder, Quincy Jones, Carmen de Lavallade, Audra McDonald, Arthur Mitchell, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Albert L. Murray, Charles B. Rangel, Bobby Short, George C. Wolfe, and Cicely Tyson.
Download or read book Once in Harlem written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book O Holy Night written by and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An internationally acclaimed artist creates rich, jewel-toned paintings inspired by the soaring voices of the Boys Choir of Harlem. Includes a CD with five songs performed by the choir. Full color.
Download or read book Heirs to Dirty Linen and Harlem Ghosts written by Theda Palmer Saxton Ph. D. and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful entrepreneur and author Dr. Theda Palmer Saxton uncovers the Heirs to Dirty Linen and Harlem Ghosts as she weaves together the most unlikely events and people into a neat package filled with salacious political corruption and organized crime. Theda threads racism, newly empowered white women, greedy white men, and self-serving politicians into the eye of a needle deeply embedded in the garments which clothe the players of speakeasies on Swing Street. The emerging new Northern black population collided with white, New York, high society, which was thirsty for a quasi-relationship with the "exotic" new Negro writers and musicians. Harlem vicariously became the cutting edge leader in interracial relationships, trendy clothing fads, raucous clubs with scantily clad chorus girls, and evolving jazz giants. Dr. Theda lays out a substantive pictorial format of Bill Saxton's rich past, which places him at the right place at the right time as the quintessential music steward of the legendary Bill's Place on Swing Street. Heirs to Dirty Linen and Harlem Ghosts is a must-read for the curious minds wanting a peek into familiar tales of American culture connected from a black woman's perspective. She breathes fresh air into the musician's unsettled spirit, which haunts Harlem. Thanks to her business acumen and Bill's talent, Swing Street via Bill's Place still perpetuates jazz music, which remains America's sole original artistic cultural contribution to the world. It swings.
Download or read book Still Life in Harlem written by Eddy L. Harris and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-09-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critically acclaimed author of "Mississippi Solo" and "Native Stranger" delivers a stunning meditation that will engage and stun readers with its emotional depth and candor, chronicling how the world called Harlem came to be.
Download or read book Harlem Bible written by Grant Reid and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlem Bible---In the Beginning by Grant Harper Reid (Uptown Special-Rare Jimi Hendrix plays Harlem Vintage Photo Collection-Included) Multi-Book Award-winning author Grant Harper Reid has authored his second 5-Star book Harlem Bible which right out of the bat became an NAACP Mid-Manhattan Black History Month Founders Day Award Winner. Grant has taken a nod from the old master Lao Tzu the keeper of the Imperial Archives who proclaimed to the world, "A Good Reckoner Needs No Tally." In "Harlem Bible" Reid demonstrates himself to be a good reckoner indeed. Reid's first book was considered to be a work of pure literary genius, full of humor that pushes the envelope. Harlem Bible is a delightfully amazing and exceedingly enjoyable book. Grant reminiscences his early years as an innocent young black child growing up in Harlem and the suburbs of New. We are weaved through the author's past with flashbacks and timelines that are assembled and chock full of fascinating bygone circumstances of yesteryear. The impetus behind the Harlem Bible came from the author's angst as his beloved Harlem neighborhood became gentrified. With gentrification came newcomers who distorted and misrepresented the historical descriptions of his community. Grant took it personally when condescending intruders flooded onto his beloved streets and defined Harlem's glorious past to suit their own one-sided cravings. Reid watched as many authentic Harlemites passed away taking their tales with them to their hereafters. He chose to do something about it and thus he wrote the Harlem Bible. Harlem Bible arranges the groundwork with corroborated verifiable information then discharges it with reflections for the benefit of the readers. Please don't misperceive the Harlem Bible with the usual pasteurized half-stepping Negro books with no basis in fact. If you want to understand the hidden black culture that most colored people won't admit to then this book is for you. Harlem Bible is a look through Grant's life with his family, friends, associates, and adversaries. We follow little Grant as he's bussed to an all-white public school in the Bronx. While there he discovers for the first time what it's like to be a black boy when white students call him Nigger. We find out the authors reaction when he goes to a black summer camp and the "It" girl asks him for a dance. We learn of Reid's reaction at a Jewish day camp after he attempts to befriend the beautiful Jewish American Princess who rebuffs him and won't give him the time of day? What happens to the young author when he sneaks into Jimi Hendrix's limousine without the proper authorization? Discover what happens when the author looks into the mirror and mistakenly concludes that, "he ain't got one scintilla of talent" himself. Laugh with and at him as he attempts and nosedives downward when he wants to become a black hippie. What happens when Grant visits the mixed-race Negro hillbillies called Jackson Whites and believes they want to make him their main dinner course? The Harlem Bible journeys in a world full of jazz, rhythm & blues, soul music and rock & roll and famous celebrities. Take a breathtaking gallop into this world full of upwardly mobile African-Americas, original uptown hang-outs, riots, romance, civil rights and the underworld as this innocent young man tries to acquire a fair and equal education. Oh, the gangsters, ministers, stars and a potpourri harebrained, zany characters. Extra Special Rare Vintage "Jimi Hendrix Play's Harlem" photographs! Contact: www.rhythmforsale.com email: [email protected]
Download or read book The Madonna of 115th Street written by Robert A. Orsi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Robert A. Orsi's classic study of popular religion in Italian Harlem. In a new preface, Orsi discusses significant shifts in the field of religious history and calls for new ways of empirically studying divine presences in human life. "The Madonna of 115th Street has over the last quarter century become a classic of American religious history. There are few books that I have enjoyed teaching more over the years and even fewer that have taught me as much about American Catholic history."—Leigh E. Schmidt, author of Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment
Download or read book The Book Itch written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and published by Carolrhoda Books ®. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, ALA Notable Children's Book, CCBC Best Children's Book of the Year, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Kirkus Best Children's Books, NCTE Notable In the 1930s, Lewis's dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had an itch he needed to scratch—a book itch. How to scratch it? He started a bookstore in Harlem and named it the National Memorial African Bookstore. And as far as Lewis Michaux Jr. could tell, his father's bookstore was one of a kind. People from all over came to visit the store, even famous people—Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, and Langston Hughes, to name a few. In his father's bookstore people bought and read books, and they also learned from each other. People swapped and traded ideas and talked about how things could change. They came together here all because of his father's book itch. Read the story of how Lewis Michaux Sr. and his bookstore fostered new ideas and helped people stand up for what they believed in.
Download or read book Rhapsodies in Black written by Richard J. Powell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 19/6 - 17/8 1997.
Download or read book Ten Days in Harlem written by HALL S and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising star historian Simon Hall encapsulates the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York.
Download or read book This Waiting for Love written by Verner D. Mitchell and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cousin of novelist Dorothy West and friend of Zora Neale Hurston, Helene Johnson (1905-1995) first gained literary prominence when James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost selected three of her poems for prizes in a 1926 competition. This volume brings together the poetry and a selection of correspondence by this poet of the Harlem Renaissance.
Download or read book Voices from the Harlem Renaissance written by Nathan Irvin Huggins and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathan Irvin Huggins showcases more than 120 selections from the political writings and arts of the Harlem Renaissance. Featuring works by such greats as Langston Hughes, Aaron Douglas, and Gwendolyn Bennett, here is an extraordinary look at the remarkable outpouring of African-American literature and art during the 1920s.
Download or read book Angel of Harlem written by Kuwana Haulsey and published by One World/Ballantine. This book was released on 2006 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the extraordinary events of Dr. May Chinn's life, Angel of Harlem is a deeply affecting story of love and transcendence. Weaving seamlessly scenes from the battlefields of the Civil War, during which her father escaped from slavery, to the Harlem living rooms and kitchen tables where May is sometimes forced to operate on her patients, this fascinating novel lays bare the heart of a woman who changed the face of medicine. A gifted, beautiful young woman in the 1920s, May Edward Chinn dreams only of music. For years she accompanies the famed singer Paul Robeson. However, a racist professor ends her hopes of becoming a concert pianist. But from one dashed dream blooms another: May would become a doctor instead--the first black female physician in all of New York. Giddy with the wonder of the Harlem Renaissance and fueled by firebrand friends like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, May doggedly pursues her ambitions while striving to overcome the pains of her past: the death of a fiancé, a lost child, and a distant father ravished by the legacy of slavery. With every grief she encounters, a resilient piece of herself locks into place. At times risking her life-attending to men stabbed in their homes and women left to die in filthy alleys-May struggles to carve out a place for herself within a medical world that still teaches that a "Negro" brain is not anatomically wired for higher thinking. Yet against the odds, she achieves her goal, starts her own practice, and becomes one of the first cancer specialists in the city. Alive with the pulse of black unrest in 1920s New York, this beautifully textured novel moves with fearlessness and grace through a history that is by turns ugly and sublime. With Angel of Harlem, critically acclaimed author Kuwana Haulsey gives poetic voice to the story of a remarkable woman who had the courage to dream and live beyond her era's limitations.
Download or read book Harlem Street Portraits written by and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-known New York photographer Harvey Stein documents the humanity and spirit of the people of Harlem in 166 beautiful black and white photographs taken over 23 years, from 1990 to 2013. The images are mostly close-up portraits that reveal the friendliness and warmth of this city's inhabitants, the vibrant and bustling vitality of the area, and the changing nature of the neighborhood. What may at first appear to be a casual encounter becomes a personal, intimate record, a meaningful collaboration between photographer and subject. With a population of nearly half a million people, Harlem is America's most celebrated African-American neighborhood. Its rich past and historical importance have made a unique contribution to our national popular culture. Stein's photographs capture and celebrate the Harlem spirit.
Download or read book Harlem written by and published by SCHOLASTIC. This book was released on 1997 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poem celebrating the people, sights, and sounds of Harlem.
