Rhapsodies in black [sound recording] : music and words from the Harlem Renaissance.

Other Titles: Selections.
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem.
Long gone.
Smoke, lillies and jade!.
How it feels to be colored me.
No images.
If we must die.
Debt.
Soon.
Odyssey of Big Boy.
America.
I want to die while you love me.
Damnation of women.
Their eyes were watching God.
Day breakers.
Sensemayá.

Publisher: Los Angeles : Rhino, p2000.

ISBN: 0737901497

Description: 4 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (98 p. : ill., col. ports. ; 26 cm.)

Subject(s): Harlem Renaissance Songs and music.
African Americans New York (State) New York Music.
Blues (Music) New York (State) New York.
Jazz New York (State) New York.
American poetry African American authors.
Jazz 1911-1920.
Jazz 1921-1930.
Jazz 1931-1940.
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Credits: Compilation produced by Shawn Amos.

Performers: Various artists.

Notes: Musical selections recorded between June 25, 1918 and Oct. 7, 1935 in New York ; reading selections recorded between Jan. 28, 1999 and Mar. 22, 2000.

Contents: Disc one: Struttin' & stridin'. Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes (Quincy Jones) -- Cotton club stomp / (Duke Ellington) -- Letter from Aaron Douglas to Langston Hughes (excerpt) / (Wally "Famous" Amos) -- There'll be some changes made / (Ethel Waters) -- Weary blues / Langston Hughes (Branford Marsalis) --
Kansas City main blues / (Clarence Williams' Blue Five) -- Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem / Helene Johnson (Angela Bassett) -- St. Louis blues / (Bessie Smith) -- Copenhagen / (Fletcher Henderson) -- Long gone / Sterling Brown (Darius Rucker)
Disc two: Testifyin' & philosophyin'. Smoke, lillies and jade! (excerpt) / Richard Bruce Nugent (Carl Hancock Rux) -- Charleston / (Paul Whiteman) -- Mother to son / Langston Hughes (Sylvia Rhone) -- How it feels to be colored me (excerpt) / Zora Neale Hurston (Debbie Allen) -- No images / Waring Cuney (Lou Rawls)
Disc three: Preachin' & prayin'. If we must die / Claude McKay (Ice-T) -- Handful of riffs / (Lonnie Johnson & Blind Willie Dunn) -- Debt / Paul Laurence Dunbar (Joshua Redman) -- Harlem fuss / (Fats Waller) -- Soon / Leon Damas (Gregory Hines) -- Odyssey of Big Boy / Sterling Brown (Chuck D) -- Minnie the Moocher / (Cab Calloway) -- America / Claude McKay (August Wilson)
Disc four: Lustin' for love & life. I want to die while you love me / Georgia Douglas Johnson (Alfre Woodard) -- Damnation of women (excerpt) / W.E.B. Du Bois (LeVar Burton) -- Baby / (Adelaide Hall with Duke Ellington) -- Their eyes were watching God (excerpt) / Zora Neale Hurston (Veronica Chambers) --
Day breakers / Arna Bontemps (Coolio) -- Sensemayá (Chant for killing a snake) / Nicolas Guillen (Eartha Kitt) -- Negro artist and the racial mountain / Langston Hughes (George Duke) -- I'm in the mood for love / (Louis Armstrong)
Table of contents: Notes from a wanna-be Harlemite (5) -- Stereo? Who needs stereo? (6) -- Remembering the Harlem Renaissance (7) -- Origins and visual artistry: Harlem Renaissance painters, photographers, and sculptors (24) -- Foot stompers, cross dressers, and swingers: big bands, singers, and musicians of the Harlem Renaissance (31) -- All the action's uptown (51) -- Poetry and short story excerpts (63) -- Track list (81) -- Production credits (96).