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296 pages, Hardcover
First published April 2, 2019
“The renaissance was occurring among those great geniuses of black vernacular culture, the musicians who created the world’s greatest art form in the entire twentieth century — jazz.”
“Let the blare of Negro jazz bands and the bellowing voice of Bessie Smith singing the Blues penetrate the closed ears of the colored near-intellectuals until they listen and perhaps understand.
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Let these sublime artists … “cause the smug Negro middle class to turn from their white, respectable, ordinary books and papers to catch a glimpse of their own beauty.”
“One can say that to thrive, the Old and New Negroes needed a New White Man.”