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S1W15: The Harlem Renaissance
Amanda Payne
Created on November 15, 2024
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The Harlem Renaissance
U.S. History
The Harlem Renaissance
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Jazz
Jazz is an American musical art form that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. In Harlem in the time of the Renaissance, Big Band Jazz was the most popular style. Jazz ignored many musical conventions with its rhythms and improvisation. Leaders of this movement included Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, and Ella Fitzgerald.
Ella Fitzgerald was well known for classics such as “Mack the Knife”.
Dizzy Gillespie’s hits were: ~“A Night in Tunisia” ~“52nd Street Theme”
Jazz
Duke Ellington’s signature songs included: ~“Take the A Train” ~“It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)”
Jazz
Watch this video: Duke Ellington, "Take the A Train"
Jazz
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Swing
Swing music developed in the early 1930s from an earlier ragtime style. Swing uses a strong rhythm section that includes brass instruments, including trumpets and trombones, woodwinds including saxophones and clarinets or stringed instruments including violin and guitar.
Swing
Watch this video: Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher"
Swing
Blues
Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes-- notes sung or played at a slightly lower pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes. It emerged as a form of self-expression in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.
Another, Lucille Bogan, was infamous for her raunchy songs of drinking and prostitution.
In the clubs in Harlem, Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey were the two most popular and well-known Blues singers.
Blues
One of the earliest Blues musicians was Robert Johnson who played and recorded across the South.
Robert Johnson's deal with the Devil
Blues
Watch this video: Bessie Smith's "St. Louis Blues" (1929)
Blues
Reflect
Art exploded in during the time of the Harlem Renniasance. With goal of showing the beauty and culture African American people and help combat the hurtful depictions and stereotypes that had come as a result of 200 year of slavery.
Art
Art
The Harlem Renaissance birthed amazing writers such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jessie Redmon Fauset among countless others. These writers wrote poetry, novels, and essays that showed their voice and talent. These works often depicted the life of Black Americans, both their struggles and triumphs.
Writing
Writing
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Writing
Writing
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Which artist was a BLUES artist who was rumored to have made a deal with the devil?
Cab Calloway
Dizzy Gillespie
Robert Johnson
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Who was one of the first African American writers who could support themselves through writing.
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Countee Cullen
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What was the law that drove many Black Americans to move to Harlem?
The 18th Amendment
The Emancipation Proclemation
The Jim Crow Law
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What music had a strong brass section and a fast beat that came to be associated with dancing?
Swing
Blues
Jass
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Langston Hughes invented a literary art form called
Jazz Poetry
Poetry Beats
Stride Style
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