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Alyssa Morris

On the Record: Black Creators and the Jazz Age

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Exhibition organized by Harry Ransom Center graduate research assistants sheds light on black creators from the collections whose work exemplifies the spirit and history of jazz.

The music of saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker, photographs of jazz and swing singer Billie Holiday and saxophonist Dexter Gordon, a jazz-inspired essay by Langston Hughes, and a novel by writer Claude McKay are some of the works spotlighted in a display organized for Black History Month 2023.

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Ransom Center experience leads to new challenge

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What Monte Monreal will remember most about his time at the Harry Ransom Center isn’t so much the complexities of the Gutenberg Bible or Anne Sexton’s drafts for “Flee on Your Donkey,” although those items are two of his favorites in the collection. Instead, it’s the people.

“Broadly, any time I was connecting with the volunteers, whether it was long-standing ones or bringing a new class in—when you interact with individuals willing to give themselves so generously, it has a snowball effect where you want to contribute to your community,” he said.

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