Unit 4—Chapter 7 The Roaring Twenties CSS 11.5. Warm Up Where is Harlem? What does Renaissance mean? What was the Great Migration? As you go through the.

Unit 4—Chapter 7The Roaring Twenties

CSS 11.5

Warm Up

• Where is Harlem?• What does Renaissance mean? • What was the Great Migration?

• As you go through the presentation, the black underlined parts are hyperlinks. Click for additional information and music.

Terrific Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014

• Take your seat• Take out your notebook• Open to notes “The Harlem Renaissance”

Precious Time / Warm -UpHighlight and add in Cornell questions

Read over your notes and answer the following questions in 3-5 sentences.

1. What was the Harlem Renaissance?2. What did you find interesting about these notes and

what do you need more information on?

Today Agenda

• Vocabulary Quiz

• FN Discussion: “Social and Cultural Tensions”

• Homework:• Read, mark and annotate the new

document packet

The Harlem Renaissance11.5.5

EQ: How did the Harlem Renaissance reflect a change in American culture?

The Harlem Renaissance

• Great Migration: Harlem (with 200,000 blacks) became the center of a new appreciation for black art and literature

• Harlem Renaissance

How can an influx of “new” culture, affect the “original” inhabitants of an area?

Marcus Garvey

• United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), 1914• Marcus Garvey founded the “back to

Africa” movement• Blacks should stop letting whites exploit

them• Economically: only shop at black stores• Culturally: embrace only black culture

• Garvey was sent to prison for mail fraud and then deported to Jamaica

• UNIA led to the Nation of Islam and the Black Power Movement of the 1960s

What do you think Garvey’s idealized version of Africa going to be like?

Black Star Line

• The Black Star Line • operated by Garvey and

the UNIA  1919-1922. • Vehicle for promoting

worldwide commerce among black communities globally.

• Garvey's vision fell victim to fraudulent business practices • Ripped off investors, inflated

value of stock, mail fraud

• Ultimately, a business fiasco, • Black Star Line was an

important symbol of black potential. Major achievement.

What promises of a new future does the song feature?

Great Migration & Spread of Black Music

Why are the Blues Important?

• Very American:• Stories of regular, hard working

people; music of the proletariat • Emerged from “black cultural

melting pot” the South in the 1890s• Reflects what life was like for

culturally undervalued and persecuted people

• Drew on mix of sounds:• African-American spirituals,

traditional songs, European hymns, folk ballads, work songs and hollers, and contemporary dance music.

Migrant Cotton Pickers in Texas

Blues > Jazz

• "A blues guitarist plays 3 chords in front of thousands of people, and a jazz guitarist plays thousands of chords in front of 3 people."

• Main focus:• Jazz music - dynamics/improvisations of

an ensemble. Most jazz is instrumental, free flowing musical exploration

• Blues music - usually centered on a guitar player/vocalist, and the personal lyrical content of the song. Blues song always contains lyrics, often about hard times, bad luck, unfaithful lovers, trials and tribulations.

• Blues came before jazz, and are an element of jazz.

• Real Blues: Albert King• Albert King Born Under a Bad Sign

• Joke Version of the Blues”• Calhoun Tubbs

Why do you think poorer Americans would relate to Blues music?

Why Sing the Blues?

• “The story of black culture coming to a position of prominence and influence in American society. The story of the women of the classic blues whose early records—the first "race" recordings—pointed to a tremendous market for African-American cultural production, and of the young white liberals and intellectuals who sought out the rural blues as an artifact of America's vanishing agrarian past. It is the story of the cultural present finding inspiration in the cultural past. But perhaps most fundamentally, the story of the blues is one of American race relations.” http://www.shmoop.com/blues-history/summary.html

How were women especially important in breaking down cultural barriers between Black and White America?

Which cultural group from outside of black culture was the quickest to black music? Why?

St. Louis Blues & The St Louis Blues

• The Blues (NHL Hockey Team)• Note the note on

Federko’s jersey• No Stanley Cups in 47

years = the blues• The Blues (music)

• White Audiences for Black Music

What do you think is significant about white audiences listening to black music, and seeing black music live?

Blues, Satan, and Rock n’ Roll

• Robert Johnson & Satan• Johnson got so good

so quickly, it was said he sold his soul to the devil for his skill

• Johnson & The Devil• Inspired Rock

• Travelling Riverside (CA) Blues

• Piece of my Heart• Hendrix Blues

The Harlem Renaissance

• The Jazz Age• Unique American

blend of black and white music traditions

• Music was new/good whites imitated the music, snuck into black neighborhoods to hear it in speakeasies

• Black artists broke down racial barriers in society

• Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Bessie Smith

• Inspired: Irving Berlin, George Gershwin

The Harlem RenaissanceLiterature & Poetry

• Claude McKay• wrote more about

need for black dignity

• Langston Hughes• celebrated black

culture, pointed out need for equality • The Weary Blues

(1926) Weary Blues• Zora Neale Hurston

• focused on lives of black women• Their Eyes were

Watching God (1937)

Hurtson

How did Harlem Renaissance literature reflect what was happening to African Americans in American society?

Harlem Renaissance Style

• Fancy & Classy Look

Why do you think that African Americans would want to look fancy? What does looking sharp mean to observers?

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen company comes,But I laugh,And eat well,And grow strong.

Tomorrow, I'll be at the tableWhen company comes.Nobody'll dareSay to me,"Eat in the kitchen,“Then.

Besides,They'll see how beautiful I amAnd be ashamed—

I, too, am America.

I too sing America

I, too, sing America

What does this poem mean to you? What do you think the author means by “I” and “too”?