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- A History of the Harlem Renaissance
- A History of the Harlem Renaissance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Revising a Renaissance
- Part I Re-reading the New Negro
- Part II Experimenting with the New Negro
- Part III Re-mapping the New Negro
- Part IV Performing the New Negro
- Chapter 15 Zora Neale Hurston’s Early Plays
- Chapter 16 Zora Neale Hurston, Film, and Ethnography
- Chapter 17 The Pulse of Harlem: African American Music and the New Negro Revival
- Chapter 18 The Figure of the Child Dancer in Harlem Renaissance Literature and Visual Culture
- Chapter 19 Jazz and the Harlem Renaissance
- Chapter 20 Alain Locke and the Value of the Harlem Renaissance
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 20 - Alain Locke and the Value of the Harlem Renaissance
from Part IV - Performing the New Negro
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2021
- A History of the Harlem Renaissance
- A History of the Harlem Renaissance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Revising a Renaissance
- Part I Re-reading the New Negro
- Part II Experimenting with the New Negro
- Part III Re-mapping the New Negro
- Part IV Performing the New Negro
- Chapter 15 Zora Neale Hurston’s Early Plays
- Chapter 16 Zora Neale Hurston, Film, and Ethnography
- Chapter 17 The Pulse of Harlem: African American Music and the New Negro Revival
- Chapter 18 The Figure of the Child Dancer in Harlem Renaissance Literature and Visual Culture
- Chapter 19 Jazz and the Harlem Renaissance
- Chapter 20 Alain Locke and the Value of the Harlem Renaissance
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter details Alain Locke’s contributions to value theory and their relationship to the overall cultural project of the Harlem Renaissance. It argues that Locke viewed the New Negro Renaissance and the transvaluation of black art – that is, the re-estimation of its value according to new principles of judgment – as one moment in a deeper and ongoing axiological transformation. To do so, it looks at his writings on African American spirituals and his “cultural retrospectives” of the 1930s and 1940s (annual reviews that took stock of the year’s work in black themes) as exemplary instances of such transvaluation. In these writings, Locke continually revised the significance and boundaries of the Harlem Renaissance.
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- A History of the Harlem Renaissance , pp. 361 - 377Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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