Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance Jazz Age Began

Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance

Jazz Age � Began in New � Brought North Orleans through the Great Migration � Heavily influenced by African music traditions � Heavily influences future groups such as the Beatles and Rolling Stones � Jazz greats included Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=7 g 0 Qg 6 gghw. E&feature=Play. List&p=A 8 F 21 DC 180 7 F 5 C 52&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&i ndex=11 http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=h 4 Zyu. ULy 9 zs

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Harlem Renaissance �Cultural renaissance of African Americans centered around the Harlem neighborhood in New York. Led by people like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Marcus Garvey �Strove to create a new black identity through the arts and rejecting old, European (white) concepts in art, music and dance. �Also called the New Negro Movement �Places like the Savoy Ballroom became famous for their focus on jazz and African American culture and were often frequented by white, middle class Americans.

Leaders �Marcus Garvey: Back to Africa movement, Universal Negro Improvement Association �Langston Hughes: poet, writer �W. E. B Du. Bois: politician �Aaron Douglas:

I’ve Known Rivers � � � � � I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I danced in the Nile when I was old I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers

A Dream Deferred: Langston Hughes �What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode