Meet the Mamma: A Musical Play in Three Acts

Meet the Mamma: A Musical Play in Three Acts

This is the cover to an experimental musical that Zora Neale Hurston wrote in 1925, early in her career. It was interesting to see another play written to by Hurston. Unlike Hurston's play in Fire!!, this musical takes place in New York City. To see what this play looked like would have also been interesting. Hurston was obviously inspired by her time in New York City. I would imagine that the music in the musical would jazz inspired and probably would have included some of the famous jazz musicians from the Harlem Renaissance.

Hurston, Zora Neale. "Meet the Mamma: A Musical Play in Three Acts." 1925. Library of Congress. Web.
15 Dec. 2015. <https://www.loc.gov/resource/mhurston.0201/?st=gallery>.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/mhurston.0201/?st=gallery

1920s

Gabriella Green

Harlem Renaissance Writers