Harlem Renaissance · 2016-02-09 · Harlem Renaissance • Was an expression of African American social though and culture. • African Americans expressed themselves through every

Harlem Renaissance1919-1929

Harlem Renaissance• Was an expression of African American

social though and culture.

•  African Americans expressed themselves through every available medium: music, theatre, poetry, literature, dance and art.

•  Harlem will be a place where secret desires of SEX, COCAINE, and WHISKEY will be realized.

•  Does culture symbolize civilization?

Harlem, New York•  Harlem, which covers 3 sq. miles, drew

175,000 African Americans. It was the largest concentration of African Americans in the world.

Poetry, Art and Music

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•  Please fill out the sheet as we go through each significant work of art.

W.E.B. Du Bois • WEB Du Bois provided guidance,

inspiration, and real opportunities for talented young blacks.

•  He published a magazine called The Crisis that allowed young blacks to express themselves.

Langston Hughes 1902-1967

THE CROSS My old man's a white old man And my old mother's black. If ever I cursed my white old man I take my curses back. If ever I cursed my black old mother And wished she were in hell, I'm sorry for that evil wish And now I wish her well My old man died in a fine big house. My ma died in a shack. I wonder were I'm going to die, Being neither white nor black?

Marcus Garvey•  Get Up And Go!

Please clear the way and let me pass, If you intend to give up here: It seems a shame that you should yield Your life without its fullest share.���You are a coward for your pains, ���To come this way, and then blow out: ���Real men are made of stuff to last, ���Which they, themselves, would never doubt.���Get up! You broken bits of flesh! ���Take courage and go fighting on; ���For every black man there's a day, ���Which pride in race has well begun.

Art during the Harlem Renaissance

Lois Mailou Jones Ascent to Ethiopia (1932)

Aaron Douglass Into Bondage (1936)

Harlem RenaissanceMusic Intro

•  The Jazz Age was started from the instruments that were sold after the Civil War to the public in the South.

•  THen in the 1920’s many of the former slaves began playing music in New Orleans and Chicago.

•  Eventually it made its way to BY and the Cotton Club.

The Cotton Club

Many musicians of the time got their start in

the Cotton Club.

ie: Duke Ellington.

Music during Harlem Renaissance

He was a pimp and had a diamond for a tooth. He used to play piano

in the red light districts. Jazz will be the combination

of French Creole, and Spanish music

Jelly Roll Morton1885-1941

Louis Armstrong1901-1971

Louis Armstrong’s dad left their family

and mom put him in the careof his sister. Was put into a boys home at a young age because he

shot a gun in the air. He will learn to play the trumpet at the boys home as he

bought one with money from a paper route.

Duke Ellington 1899-1974

Most influential artists in music history. His career will span 50 years and called his music

American music instead of Jazz.

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