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On the Record: Black Creators and the Jazz Age

March 8, 2023 - Alyssa Morris

Carl Van Vechten photograph of Billie Holiday

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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Why are some books collected and others merely read?

September 26, 2019 - Janine Barchas

During the latter half of the nineteenth century, cheap and shoddy reprints of Jane Austen’s novels brought her work to the general public. [Read more…] about Why are some books collected and others merely read?

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Free daily tours of The Rise of Everyday Design: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and America

February 26, 2019 - Jennifer Tisdale

 

Tour The Rise of Everyday Design: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and America
Through July 14, 2019

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