1920s – 1930s jazzdanceartliterature: poetry, drama, novels
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The Harlem
Renaissance
1920s – 1930s
JAZZ
DANCE
ART
LITERATURE: POETRY, DRAMA, NOVELS
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World War I had just ended
The 18th Amendment made alcohol illegal
Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were presidents
Radio hit the airwaves
What was going on otherwise?
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Yup, twas the Roarin’ Twenties
That’s a radio. She’s a flapper.
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What caused the Renaissance in Harlem?
Great Migration from the rural South, 1914-1918
Former slaves were heading North to find work in the urban centers/cities because Reconstruction had failed.
Created their own culture of music, art, literature, and fashion in response to their new surroundings
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New York City, 1920
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The Harlem Renaissancewas an explosion
of African-American culture that began with jazz, the only music indigenous to the United States
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Type of jazz music
Charlie Parker, saxophone
Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet
Charles Mingus, bassist
Scat: Be de be do be do be do be do
Be Bop!
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Technically Be Bop be do be do be do be do be dahhh…. Horns played cleanly, like a piano
Emphasis on 8th and 16th notes
Very fast, many solos in one song
Chords are a reference, not a melody
Integrated/quoted/sampled from other songs
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Roots of Jazz in the
Southern Spiritual
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And roots from Africa
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They played their music here
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Dance and music blended together…
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Rented hall + flyers + cheap food, + good, live music + dime admission + red lights =
RENT! Parties in Harlem
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Musicians like Charlie Parker or Billie Holiday would show up after their paid gig and play for free
These were called “Jumps!” or “Shouts!”
IT WAS THE JAZZ AGE
On a really good rent night
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Just as colorful as the music
Art of the Renaissance
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Some hearkened back to Africa
Characteristics of the Art
L i k e t h e w o r k o f A a r o n D o u g l a s
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Much of the Art
This is theCharleston
Reflectedthedancing.
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Were always in the back of their minds The reality: lynching and the Ku Klux
Klan
The struggles of these former slaves
This is Denver, COin 1930
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Langston Hughes, Theme for English B:
The instructor said,Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you-Then, it will be true.
I wonder if it's that simple? I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. I went to school there, then Durham, then here to this college on the hill above Harlem. I am the only colored student in my class. The steps from the hill lead down into Harlem through a park, then I cross St. Nicholas, Eighth Avenue, Seventh, and I come to the Y, the Harlem Branch Y, where I take the elevator up to my room, sit down, and write this page:
The Literature Reflected this Dark Reality of Two Worlds: Black and White
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It's not easy to know what is true for you or me at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I'm what I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you: hear you, hear me-we two-you, me, talk on this page.
(I hear New York too.) Me-who? Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. I like a pipe for a Christmas present, or records-Bessie, bop, or Bach. I guess being colored doesn't make me NOT like the same things other folks like who are other races.
This is what Langston wrote:
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So will my page be colored that I write? Being me, it will not be white. But it will be a part of you, instructor. You are white--- yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. That's American. Sometimes perhaps you don't want to be a part of me. Nor do I often want to be a part of you. But we are, that's true! As I learn from you,I guess you learn from me--- although you're older---and white--- and somewhat more free.
And he finished his essay (poem)
This is my page for English B.
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http://www.jazzwise.com/catalog/media/AeberHbk/37.pdf
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