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The Harlem Renaissance & the Rebirth of American Culture. Chapter 13 Review. Warm up Question. In what ways did African American’s influence American culture in the 1920’s?. African Americans in the 1920’s.
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The Harlem Renaissance & the Rebirth of American Culture Chapter 13 Review
Warm up Question • In what ways did African American’s influence American culture in the 1920’s?
African Americans in the 1920’s • The Great Migration – caused by racial violence, economic discrimination and natural disasters in the South • Many settled in Harlem New York • caused appreciation for black art, music and writing called the Harlem Renaissance.
Jazz • “sacred music” of the “Era of wonderful nonsense” • Roots in New Orleans • As blacks moved north (great migration) they brought jazz
The Cotton Club Cab Calloway
“Don’t mean a thing” “The Mooche” “Mood Indigo”Duke_Ellington_It_Dont_Mean_a_Thing_If_You_Don't_Got_That_Swing.mp4 "Jazz is a music that came out of Africa with very deep African roots."--Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong • Louis_Armstrong_&_The_All_Stars,_em__Mack_The_Knife_,_live,_Stuttgart,_Germany,_1959..mp4
Literature • Post WWI era = new style of writing • Many from ethnic and regional backgrounds • New styles took on ideals of the 1920’s youth • Took on religion, marriage, prohibition & conservative views
Authors • F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby • Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy • Earnest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be poet and not a negro poet. My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds. Countee Cullen- poet
IncidentOnce riding in old Baltimore, Heart-filled, head-filled with glee; I saw a Baltimorean Keep looking straight at me. Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger, And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, "Nigger." I saw the whole of Baltimore From May until December; Of all the things that happened there That's all that I remember. Written by Countée Cullen (1903-1946)
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. When people care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul. I swear to the Lord,I still can't see, why democracy means, everybody but me. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes- writer
I, Too Sing America 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 am the darker brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen company comes,But I laugh,And eat well,And grow strong.
New Racial Pride • Marcus Garvey • Jamaican • Founded the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) • Sponsored black stores and businesses • “back to Africa” Movement • Deportation due to mail fraud
Wrap-Up Question Using examples from the films, poems, songs and art you have heard/seen today, what insight do they give us about life for African Americans in the 1920’s during the Harlem Renaissance?
