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The Harlem Renaissance & the Rebirth of American Culture

The Harlem Renaissance & the Rebirth of American Culture. 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

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  1. The Harlem Renaissance & the Rebirth of American Culture

  2. Warm up Question • In what ways did African American’s influence American culture in the 1920’s?

  3. 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.

  4. Jazz • “sacred music” of the “Era of wonderful nonsense” • Roots in New Orleans • As blacks moved north (great migration) they brought jazz

  5. The Cotton Club Cab Calloway

  6. “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

  7. Lindy Hop

  8. Louis Armstrong • Louis_Armstrong_&_The_All_Stars,_em__Mack_The_Knife_,_live,_Stuttgart,_Germany,_1959..mp4

  9. Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear And it shows them pearly white Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe And he keeps it … ah … out of sight.  Ya know when that shark bites, with his teeth, babe Scarlet billows start to spread Fancy gloves, though, wears old MacHeath, babe So there’s nevah, nevah a trace of red.  Now on the sidewalk … uuh, huh … whoo … sunny mornin’ … uuh, huh Lies a body just oozin' life … eeek! And someone’s sneakin' ‘round the corner Could that someone be Mack the Knife?  A-there's a tugboat … huh, huh, huh … down by the river don’tcha know Where a cement bag’s just a'droopin' on down Oh, that cement is just, it's there for the weight, dear Five'll get ya ten old Macky’s back in town.  Now, d'ja hear ‘bout Louie Miller? He disappeared, babe After drawin' out all his hard-earned cash And now MacHeath spends just like a sailor Could it be our boy's done somethin' rash?  Now … Jenny Diver … ho, ho … yeah … Sukey Tawdry Ooh … Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown Oh, the line forms on the right, babe Now that Macky’s back in town.  Aah … I said Jenny Diver … whoa … Sukey Tawdry Look out to Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown Yes, that line forms on the right, babe Now that Macky’s back in town … Look out … old Macky is back!!

  10. Literature • Post WWI era = new style of writing • Potrayed ethnic and regional backgrounds • took on ideals of the 1920’s youth • Issues of religion, marriage, prohibition & conservative views

  11. Authors • F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby • Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy • Earnest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms

  12. 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

  13. 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)

  14. 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

  15. 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.

  16. ART

  17. Street Life, Harlemby William H. Johnson

  18. Jeunesse by Palmer Hayden

  19. New Racial Pride • Marcus Garvey • Jamaican • Founded the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) • Sponsored black stores and businesses • “back to Africa” Movement • Deported due to mail fraud

  20. 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?

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