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Article: Lennox Avenue: A Journal of Interartistic Inquiry.
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- December 1, 1996
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Named for Harlem's Lenox Avenue, a street famed for jazz clubs and the Savoy ballroom, the inaugural issue of this annual features two namesakes as frontispieces: a lithograph by Sargent Johnson and a ballet suite by William Grant Still to a scenario by Verna Arvey. Samuel Floyd's introduction evokes the spirit of the Avenue during the Negro Renaissance, and Allen M. Gordon gives a historical critique of the lithograph. Floyd's preface concludes with the following:
The Harlem Renaissance was teeming with interdisciplinary interaction, with writers like Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, visual artists such as Aaron Douglass, and musicians such as Still interacting, ...