Anthology of Negro Poets (1954) RARE 1st Pressing Vinyl includes Langston Hughes
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Anthology of Negro Poets (1954) edited by Arna Bontemps. RARE! True First Pressing Vinyl! Includes Original 6-Page Booklet! Condition is Used. Shipped with USPS Media Mail.
- True First Printing of 1954!
- Includes RARE readings by great African-American Poets Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Claude McKay, Countee Culleen, Gwendolyn Brooks and Maragaret Walker!
- Vinyl includes original 6-Page Liner notes from Arna Bontemps AND Folkway Records and Service Corp. mailing list announcement!
- Mailing List Announcement includes original/founding mailing address of Folkway Records and Service Corp. located at 117 W. 46th St. New York, NY 23 USA
- Vinyl plays excellently!
ARTIST BIO Arna Wendell Bontemps (October 13, 1902 – June 4, 1973)[2] was an American poet, novelist and librarian, and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance.
Bontemps was born in Alexandria, Louisiana, into a Louisiana Creole family. His ancestors included free people of color and French colonists. His father was a contractor and sometimes would take his son to construction sites. As the boy got older, his father would take him along to speak-easies at night that featured jazz. His mother, Maria Carolina Pembroke, was a schoolteacher.
Bontemps returned to graduate school and earned a master's degree in library science from the University of Chicago in 1943. Bontemps was appointed as head librarian at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. During his time there, he developed important collections and archives of African-American literature and culture, namely the Langston Hughes Renaissance Collection. Through his librarianship and bibliographic work, Bontemps became a leading figure in establishing African-American literature as a legitimate object of study and preservation. His work as a poet, novelist, children’s writer, editor, librarian and historian helped shape modern African-American literature, but it also had a tremendous influence on African-American culture.MY REMARKS The world of African-American literature is so vast yet still so undiscovered in so many ways. When I found this incredible gem, I couldn't stop smiling for a week. The vintage sound of the vinyl and crisp diction of the readers takes me to a time where my ancestors were living a completely different reality. I must return the love.
-Kenna
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