Africana Arts And Letters An Atoz Reference Of Writers Musicians And Artists Of The African American Experience None None by None, None, Appiah, Anthony; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr instant download after payment.

655 pages : 23 cm, 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, \"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, Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-655) and index