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+Harlem RenaissanceAfrican-American Culture in the 1920s
Standard 11.5.5
+ Harlem—New York City neighborhood
Renaissance—”rebirth” of culture
Harlem Renaissance—flowering of African American literature, music, and art
+The Harlem Renaissance
Causes
“The New Negro” Movement African Americans are
characterized as self-assertive, racially conscious, articulate, and, for the most part, in charge of what they produced.
Great MigrationThe New Morality
+Music: Jazz & Blues
Jazz—improvisational style of music influenced by Dixieland music and ragtime
Blues—soulful style of music that evolved from African American spirituals(themes: unfulfilled love, poverty, oppression)
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington
Bessie Smith
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Speakeasies and Harlem Nightclubs Cotton Club
Music: Jazz & Blues
Fought against racism through the communication of entertainment and intellect.
+Literature
Langston Hughes “The Weary Blues,” “I, too, Sing America,”
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God
Writers’ Themes— Growing Urbanity, Sophistication,
Alienation, Marginality
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+Langston Hughes “The Negro Speaks of
Rivers” Page 432
+Langston Hughes “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
Now, its your turn…
Focus on one aspect of yourself and one common natural or manufactured item to write a free verse poem in the style of Hughes “The High School Student Speaks of Trees” “The Musician Speaks of Drums”
Repetition Stanzas beginning
with I plus an action verb