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The Harlem Renaissance 1919-1930’s

The Harlem Renaissance 1919-1930’s. New Beginnings. A time of experimentation with art, music, literature, and dance. A celebration of African American culture A time to appreciate and show off diversity, ethnicity, and culture The beginning of a new era of expression.

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The Harlem Renaissance 1919-1930’s

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  1. The Harlem Renaissance 1919-1930’s

  2. New Beginnings • A time of experimentation with art, music, literature, and dance. • A celebration of African American culture • A time to appreciate and show off diversity, ethnicity, and culture • The beginning of a new era of expression

  3. Musicians on the Scene **Music: -Billie Holliday: influential jazz and pop singer -Dizzy Gillespie: trend setting jazz musician, composer, band leader, and trumpet player. -Louis Armstrong: revolutionary jazz trumpet player

  4. Popular Entertainment *The Apollo Theatre • A popular theatre used for dancing and musical performances that is still used today. *The Cotton Club - A famous night club where many African American musicians performed.

  5. The Creative Minds of the Time -Langston Hughes: Popular poet, playwright, author, and important figure of the time -Zora Neal Huston: Author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, influential writer of the time.

  6. Mother to SonBy: Langston Hughes Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor --Bare. But all the timeI'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now --For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

  7. *Mother to Son Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor--Bare. But all the timeI'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now --For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair. *Dreams Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

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