>From 1919 to 1935, Harlem in New York City was "in vogue." The rate of African-American cultural production of theatre, film, music and dance was astounding during this period, known also as The Negro Awakening and the Decade of the New Negro. At the onset of the decade, there were around twenty published plays by African-Americans; by the end, the number increased to over eighty. W.E B. Du Bois, in his tireless promotion of African-American artists, put out the call for plays to "depict our life, experience and humor." The Broadway theatre pieces most often consisted of black musical revues-the precursors to the American musical-and featured the best black performers of the day in year-long runs. Most revues, such as Shuffle Along and Blackbirds, featured cakewalk and tap dancing and the music of the jazz age. In addition, African-American film production companies, makers of "race" films, were flourishing, headed by the visionary filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and numbering over one hundred by the end of the decade. In this course, we will explore these cultural productions of the era of the Harlem Renaissance in relation to their place in African-American performance history. We will consider the fluidity between the forms of theatre, film, music and dance and also between performance and the thriving literary scene, with luminaries such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, who both wrote plays as well as novels, poetry and essays. Format: lecture/discussion. Evaluation: students will be evaluated on the basis of class participation, one class presentation based on a semester-long research project, and a semester-long research project (15-20 pages). No prerequisites. Enrollment limit: 19 (expected: 15).