1. The Harlem Renaissance

2. Harlem is vicious Modernism. BangClash. Vicious the way it's made, Can you stand such beauty. So violent and transforming. Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)

3. Background outburst of creative activity from 1920- 1930 among African-Americans began in New York City Greenwich Village Greenwich Village Harlem Harlem first called “The New Negro Movement”

4. African Americans encouraged to become “The New Negro” term coined by sociologist and critic Alain LeRoy Locke 1925 1925

5. Contributing Factors The Great Migration to northern cities to northern cities between 1919 and 1926 between 1919 and 1926 trend in American society toward experimentation during 1920s rise in radical Black intellectuals Alain Locke Alain Locke Marcus Garvey Marcus Garvey W.E.B. DuBois W.E.B. DuBois

6. "(Harlem) is romantic in its own right. And it is hard and strong, its noise, heat, cold, cries and colours are so. And the nostalgia is violent too; the eternal radio seeping through everything day and night, indoors and out, becomes somehow the personification of restlessness, desire, brooding." Nancy Cunard, Harlem Review, 1933

7. Characterized by New ways of thinking led to new ways of self-expression Art Art Music Music Literature Literature The Crisis literary magazine literary magazine started by W.E.B. DuBois started by W.E.B. DuBois run by NAACP run by NAACP outlet for many authors and artists outlet for many authors and artists

8. Louis Armstrong "Louis Armstrong's station in the history of jazz is umimpeachable. If it weren't for him, there wouldn't be any of us." Dizzy Gillespie, 1971

9. born in New Orleans influenced many musicians while in Chicago and New York considered the “King of Jazz”

10. Jelly Roll Morton first great Jazz composer and piano player important transitional figure between ragtime and jazz piano styles

11. as teenager worked as piano player in Storyville whorehouses other jobs included gambler gambler pool shark pool shark pimp pimp vaudeville comedian vaudeville comedian pianist pianist after 1930 fell on hard times even lost diamond in his front tooth even lost diamond in his front tooth

12. Bessie Smith one of 1920s most popular Black recording stars of popular with Black and White audiences popular with Black and White audiences “Empress of Blues”

13. Aaron Douglas work exemplified “New Negro” showcases of work murals on buildings murals on buildings cover art cover art illustrations to works in The Crisis illustrations to works in The Crisis

14. "...Our problem is to conceive, develop, establish an art era. Not white art painting black...let's bare our arms and plunge them deep through laughter, through pain, through sorrow, through hope, through disappointment, into the very depths of the souls of our people and drag forth material crude, rough, neglected. Then let's sing it, dance it, write it, paint it. Let's do the impossible. Let's create something transcendentally material, mystically objective. Earthy. Spiritually earthy. Dynamic." Aaron Douglas

15. Langston Hughes self proclaimed calling was "to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America“ work was important in shaping art of Harlem Renaissance http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15722

16. writing influenced by life and art of African Americans wanted to tell stories of people in way that reflected their culture including suffering suffering love of laughter love of laughter language language music music

17. Countee Cullen raised and educated in primarily white community differed from other Harlem Renaissance poets lacked background lacked background to comment from personal experience on lives of other blacks use popular black themes in writing