Describe the first piece of art.

Describe the second piece of art and compare.

The Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance

o The Harlem Renaissance was a ____________ and artistic movement celebrating

African American ____________.

It was led by educated, middle-class African Americans who experienced

pride in the African-American experience.

They wrote about the trials of being black in a white world.

o Claude McKay

Novelist, poet, Jamaican _______________.

Wrote to African Americans to resist _____________ and criminalization

o Langston Hughes

A __________ who used his art to describe the difficult live of African

American working class people.

o Zora Neale Hurston portrayed the lives of the _________, unschooled southern

blacks in books, short stories, poems, and ____________.

Jazz

o Jazz was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

o Musicians blended instrumental _______________

with vocal blues to create a new sound.

o _____________ _______________ got started

playing trumpet in a creole jazz band run by Joe

“King” Oliver in 1922.

Armstrong made personal expression a key part of jazz music, and he is

known as one of the most influential people in jazz music today.

o Jazz spread quickly into other cities and in night clubs.

o Edward Kennedy “____________” Ellington, a jazz pianist and composer, led his

ten-piece orchestra at the cotton club in Harlem, NY.

o A music by the name of Cab Calloway popularized “________”, improvised jazz

singing using sounds instead of words.

o Bessie Smith was one of the most

talented _________ singers of the

decade and was at one point the

highest paid black artist in the

world.

Marcus Garvey.

o Marcus Garvey was an ______________ from ____________ that believed

African Americans should live in a separate society.

o He spread a radical message of black pride.

o He founded the _________, Universal Negro Improvement Association.

o He gained followers with spellbinding oratory, mass meetings, parades, and a

message of pride.

o Encouraged his followers to promote black businesses, move back to Africa, and

for native Africans to overthrow the colonial leaders.

o His movement fell apart after he was ___________ for mail fraud.