Generalizations: The Harlem Renaissance
Jan 05, 2016
Generalizations: The Harlem Renaissance
Directions:
• This activity will focus on three areas of the Harlem Renaissance Arts:
1. Graphic Art2. Language Arts3. Jazz Music
• While looking at each section answer the questions for that medium on your w/s “Generalizations: The Harlem Rennaissance.”
Graphic Art
Blues, 1929Archibald J. Motley,
Jr.
Cocktails, c. 1926Archibald Motley, Jr.
Into Bondage, 1936
Aaron Douglas
Ironers, 1943
Jacob Lawrence
Going to Church, c. 1940-41William H. Johnson
Language Arts
Poetry
Langston HughesLet America be AmericaAgain
Read this poem aloud inclass
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” 1921
Langston Hughes I've known rivers . . .I've known rivers ancient as the world and
older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers.I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young,I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep,I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it,I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
went down to New Orleans,And I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden
in the sunset.I've known rivers:Ancient dusky rivers,My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
• http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15722
Jazz Music
jazz-introduction.wmv
Fats Waller
Art of the Harlem Renaissance
• Why Harlem? – The Great Migration, soldiers
returning from WWI– The North: Greater freedom AND
anger at more racism
• Pan-Africa feelings– Popularity of Egyptian art & culture– Shed the ex-slave identity– Create a powerful, intelligent identity