- unitid
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{"value"=>"186271", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22818373", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Levering 1987-15", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"circa 1974-1978", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1974/1978", "certainty"=>"approximate"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"David Levering Lewis \"Voices from the Renaissance\" audio collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"51 audio_recordings", "unit"=>"audio_recordings"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Voices from the Renaissance audio collection consists of fifty-one sound recordings, primarily of interviews that David Levering Lewis conducted with and about Harlem Renaissance figures for his 1981 book, <span class=\"title\">When Harlem Was in Vogue</span>."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Lewis, David L., 1936-", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>David Levering Lewis published <span class=\"title\">When Harlem Was in Vogue</span> in 1981. The book is a history of the Harlem Renaissance, with an emphasis on the period's literature and the institutions that facilitated its development. Upon publication, the book was favorably reviewed by the <span class=\"title\">New York Times Book Review</span>, <span class=\"title\">Library Journal</span>, and the <span class=\"title\">Journal of American History</span>, among others.</p> <p>David Levering Lewis is an African American historian whose work has focused on political biography, race and literature, and the intellectual, social, and cultural histories of the African diaspora in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is professor emeritus of history at New York University and previously taught at institutions including the University of Ghana, Howard University, Harvard University, and Rutgers University, where he was appointed the Martin Luther King, Jr., Professor of History in 1985. Among his awards are Pulitzer Prizes for both volumes of his biography of W.E.B. DuBois (1994 and 2001), the Bancroft Prize (1994), and the National Humanities Medal (2009).</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of fifty-one cassette tape sound recordings. They are primarily interviews David Levering Lewis conducted with and about notable Harlem Renaissance figures from 1974 to 1978. The collection includes some recordings in which Lewis alone recounts earlier interviews, as well as recordings of unidentified Paul Robeson 78s.</p> <p>The interviewees in the collection are Raoul Abdul, Wilhelmina Adams, Regina Andrews, Helen Armstead-Johnson, Poppy Cannon, Mercer Cook, Carl Cowl, Ida Mae Cullen, James Daniels, Arthur P. Davis, Miriam Hapgood DeWitt, Irene Diggs, Owen Dodson, Aaron Douglas, Arthur Huff Fauset, Pearl and Ivy Fisher, G. James Fleming, Emerson \"Geechie\" Harper, Jean Blackwell Hutson, Aida Immerman, Ivie Jackman, C.L.R. James, Mildred Johnson, Bruce Kellner, Alfred A. Knopf, Rayford Logan, Gerri Major, May Miller, Henry Lee and Mollie Moon, A'Lelia Ransom Nelson, Richard Bruce Nugent, Louise T. Patterson, Mae Wright Peck, George N. Redd, Maurice V. Russell, George Schuyler, Charles Sebree, James Spady, Amy Spingarn, Marjorie Content Toomer, Charles H. Wesley, Dorothy West, Leigh Whipper, Edith Wilson, and Corinne Wright.</p> <p>In addition to their own lives, interviewees discuss figures such as Countee Cullen, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke, J.A. Rogers, Carl Van Vechten and his 1926 book, <span class=\"title\">Nigger Heaven</span>, and Walter White.</p> <p>The collection is organized alphabetically by subject's last name. Because the original items are cassette tapes, the bulk of the cassettes are one digitized item with two parts, one for each side of the cassette. They were made for personal reference and as such, the quality of the recordings varies; poor audio quality is indicated in the relevant item's content notes. Information regarding each interviewee's significance to the Harlem Renaissance, largely derived from description in related collections material, is also indicated in the content notes.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>David Levering Lewis, 1987.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Papers transferred to Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division. See David Levering Lewis \"Voices from the Renaissance\" collection, Sc MG 335.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection inventoried by <span class=\"name\">Nathan Evans</span>. Collection processed and described by <span class=\"name\">Anika Paris</span>, archivist; and <span class=\"name\">Shola Lynch</span>, curator. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2023</span>.</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection, and a grant from the Mellon Foundation supported the digitization."}
- date_start
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1974
- keydate
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1974
- date_end
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1978
- date_inclusive_start
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1974
- date_inclusive_end
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1978
- extent_statement
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51 audio_recordings
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"David Levering Lewis \"Voices from the Renaissance\" audio collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}