Harlem Renaissance
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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Harlem Renaissance
Reintroducing the Arts
The Great Migration
- Economic opportunities trigger migration
- 1.6 million African Americans
- From rural South to the industrial Northern cities
- Intellectual and social freedoms
- 1910-1930
Opportunities hindered by segregation. Venues restricted, African Americans were only allowed in "colored" facilities
Harlem Renaissance
- Spanned the 1920s
- New Negro Movement
- Harlem, in the borough of Manhattan
- The Reconstruction & The Great Migration
- Growing in African American middle class
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Harlem Renaissance
- Emerging art, music, literature
- blues, spirituals, jazz
- Harlem Stride Style (piano)
- Jazz poetry/spoken word/slam
- uplift the race and culture
Photo by bastet in the sky with diamonds
Night Clubs
The cotton club
The Duke Ellington Orchestra was the "house" orchestra for a number of years at the Cotton Club.
Theaters
The Apollo
For blacks it was the most important cultural institution–not just the greatest black theatre, but a special place to come of age emotionally, professionally, socially, and politically
The Apollo
James Brown, Stevie Wonder, and even Michael Jackson
Lafayette Theatre
First to desegregate
as early as 1912, African-American theatergoers were allowed to sit in orchestra seats instead of only the balcony.
Duke Ellington
composer, pianist, band leader
Ellington wrote over 2000 pieces in his lifetime.
Ellington would be among the first to focus on musical form and composition in jazz
Ellington would be among the first to focus on musical form and composition in jazz
Cab Calloway
Jazz singer & Band leader
Billie Holiday
Jazz singer and songwriter
pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo
improvisation compensated for lack of musical education
improvisation compensated for lack of musical education
Ella Fitzgerald
the queen of jazz (singer)
"First Lady of Song," the "Queen of Jazz"
Louis Armstrong
jazz trumpeter & singer
He is widely recognized as a founding father of jazz.
He appeared in 30 films and averaged 300 concerts per year, performing for both kids on the street and heads of state.
He appeared in 30 films and averaged 300 concerts per year, performing for both kids on the street and heads of state.
Entertainers
dancers, actors
Billy "Bojangles" Robinson
Tap dancer & actor
one of the first minstrel and vaudeville performers to appear without the use of blackface makeup
interracial dance team (with Temple in The Little Colonel),
interracial dance team (with Temple in The Little Colonel),
Josephine Baker
Dancer singer & ACTRESS
Refused to preform in segregated audiences
Photo by carbonated
Artists
painting
Henry Tanner
painter
After teaching himself some art, he had enrolled as a young man in 1879 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Thankful Poor
The Banjo Lesson
the entertainer stereotype vs. one on one interaction
Jacob Lawrence
Painter
Lawrence's parents were among those who migrated between 1916-1919, considered the first wave of the migration.
The Migration Series : Panel 1
Jacob Lawrence painted his Great Migration series during the 1940s to capture the experience of African Americans during the 1920s
Aaron Douglas
painter
Slavery Through the Reconstruction
Literature
Jazz poetry
African American life from an African American perspective
Photo by "The Wanderer's Eye Photography"
Zora Neale Hurston
FOLKLORIST anthropologist & Author
50 published short stories, plays, and essays
one of the founders of a magazine called Fire! which highlighted artists and writers of the time
one of the founders of a magazine called Fire! which highlighted artists and writers of the time
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Langston Hughes
Poet activist PLAYWRIGHT novelist columnist
