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The Harlem Renaissance 1920s-1940s

The Harlem Renaissance 1920s-1940s. Harlem: a primarily African American community located in New York City Renaissance: means “Re-birth” or “Re-awakening”. The Great Migration. Millions of African Americans fled the south (where the Jim Crow laws were strongest) for northern cities.

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The Harlem Renaissance 1920s-1940s

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  1. The Harlem Renaissance1920s-1940s

  2. Harlem: a primarily African American community located in New York City Renaissance: means “Re-birth” or “Re-awakening”

  3. The Great Migration • Millions of African Americans fled the south (where the Jim Crow laws were strongest) for northern cities

  4. "Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can anyone deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me." - Zora Neale Hurston

  5. What was the Harlem Renaissance? • A movement of racial pride that came to be represented in the idea of the “New Negro”, who through intellect and production of literature, art, and music could challenge the racism and stereotypes to promote progressive or socialist politics, and racial and social integration. • The creation of art and literature would serve to "uplift" the race.

  6. Music & Entertainment JAZZ • Large part of American Culture to this day • The form had a descriptive simplicity to it • This music brought up from the “Negro Spiritual” Built off of the performers and their improvisational skills • Main Instrument: horns, saxophone, piano

  7. Dixieland Jazz vs. Chicago Jazz • Chicago, IL • Played and recorded by African Americans • More emphasis on solos and features saxophones, pianos, and vocalists • Tenser rhythms • New Orleans, LA • Started by African Americans, but recorded by white bands • Big Band feeling

  8. JAZZ Louis Armstrong Miles Davis Duke Ellington Jelly Roll Morton W.C. Handy

  9. Music & Entertainment Blues • Large part of American Culture to this day • music genre that originated in African-American communities from spirituals, work songs, shouts chants, and rhymed narrative ballads Main Instrument: piano/guitar

  10. Music & Entertainment Blues • Howlin Wolf • BB King • Muddy Waters

  11. Music & Entertainment RagTime • Its main characteristic trait is its syncopated, or "ragged," rhythm. It began as dance music of African American communities in St. Louis and New Orleans years before being published as popular sheet music for piano. • Main instrument- piano

  12. Music & Entertainment RagTime • Scott Joplin • Song

  13. Listen to the following songs and determine if it is jazz, blues, or ragtime. • Song 1 • Song 2 • Song3 • Song 4 • Song 5 • Song 6 • Song 7 • Song 8

  14. Art Art done by African Americans about African American life, religion, experiences, and feelings Aaron Douglas

  15. Romar Bearden Aaron Douglas

  16. C.J. Walker Palmer Hayden

  17. Poetry If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot. Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back Claude McKay

  18. Langston Hughes AcceptanceGod in His infinite wisdomDid not make me very wise-So when my actions are stupidThey hardly take God by surprise

  19. Langston Hughes As I Grew OlderIt was a long time ago.I have almost forgotten my dream.But it was there then,In front of me,Bright like a sun--My dream.And then the wall rose,Rose slowly,Slowly,Between me and my dream.Rose until it touched the sky--The wall.Shadow.I am black.I lie down in the shadow.No longer the light of my dream before me,Above me.Only the thick wall.Only the shadow.My hands!My dark hands!Break through the wall!Find my dream!Help me to shatter this darkness,To smash this night,To break this shadowInto a thousand lights of sun,Into a thousand whirling dreamsOf sun!

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