harlem is... MUSIC

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Explores Harlem’s unrivaled musical traditions from gospel to classical to jazz to hip-hop, honoring landmark institutions from James Reese Europe’s orchestra of 1910 to present institutions, to current-day legacy keepers and clubs who are keeping the music alive in Harlem.

Contemporary photographic portraits by renowned documentary photographer Ruth Morgan; archival photographs from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; commentary by contributing writers, and poetry and prose by Harlem public school students all pay tribute to rich and diverse music that makes Harlem the musical legend it is. 

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