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Africana : arts and letters : an A-to-Z reference of writers, musicians, and artists of the African American experience
- Title
- Africana : arts and letters : an A-to-Z reference of writers, musicians, and artists of the African American experience / editors, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louise [i.e. Louis] Gates, Jr.
- Publication
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Running Press, [2004]
- ©2004
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- Description
- 655 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Here's an eminently readable reference of African-American contributions to the arts, faithfully adapted from the original one-volume encyclopedia Africana. Essays on such influential black figures as the writer and activist Amiri Baraka; singers Billie Holiday, Paul Robeson, and Lena Horne; painter Romare Bearden; filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles, and poet Maya Angelou, as well as on black cultural events throughout modern history, create a rich resource of African-American arts and letters.
- Alternative Title
- Arts and letters
- Subjects
- African American arts
- Encyclopedias
- African American artists > Biography > Dictionaries
- African American arts > Encyclopedias
- African American authors > Biography
- African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century > Dictionaries
- African American singers > Biography > Dictionaries
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- African Americans > Encyclopedias
- Genre/Form
- Encyclopedias.
- Note
- "The entries in Arts and letters: an A-to-Z reference of the writers, musicians, and artists of the African American experience originally appeared in Basic Civitas Books' Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and the African American experience"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-655) and index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-1625
- ISBN
- 0762420421
- 9780762420421
- LCCN
- 2004095748
- OCLC
- 57444998
- Title
- Africana : arts and letters : an A-to-Z reference of writers, musicians, and artists of the African American experience / editors, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louise [i.e. Louis] Gates, Jr.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Running Press, [2004]
- Copyright Date
- ©2004
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-655) and index.
- Added Author
- Appiah, Anthony, editor.Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., editor.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-1625