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The Harlem Renaissance The Joy And Pain of This Amazing Era Intro To the Renaissance Between the 1920s – 1930s, the African – American culture movement known as the “Harlem Renaissance began. Music was featured and was followed by dance and jazz bands. African-Americans were encouraged to celebrate their heritage and to become "The New Negro," a term coined in 1925 by sociologist and critic Alain Leroy Locke. "...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 Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong was born in a poor section of New Orleans known as “the Battlefield” on August 4, 1901. By the time of his death in 1971, the man known around the world as Satchmo was widely recognized as a founding father of jazz – a uniquely American art form. His influence, as an artist and cultural icon, is universal, unmatched, and very much alive today. Louis Armstrong’s achievements are remarkable. During his career, he: developed a way of playing jazz, as an instrumentalist and a vocalist, which has had an impact on all musicians to follow; recorded hit songs for five decades, and his music is still heard today on television and radio and in films; wrote two autobiographies, more than ten magazine articles, hundreds of pages of memoirs, and thousands of letters; appeared in over 30 films as a gifted actor with superb comic timing and an unabashed joy of life; composed dozens of songs that have become jazz standards; performed an average of 300 concerts each year, with his frequent tours to all parts of the world earning him the nickname “Ambassador Satch”; and became one of the first great celebrities of the twentieth century Billie Holiday Born Eleanora Fagan in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April 7, 1915 Later moved to New York In the 1930s she begun singing a local clubs Because of her beauty and her catchy vocals, Lady Day Holiday was an instant idol – ess. Charlie Parker He was one of the most important figure in Jazz history and also one of the greatest tragic hero “Yard Bird” was his nick name because he love chicken Parker come from Kansas city at the age of fifteen Music was his passion He lived a amoral life and lived for any high he could get He had one of the best albums because he backed be an orchestra Aaron Douglas He was one of he Harlem Renaissance famous painter His art was described as “New Negro “ philosophy His painting were based on public building, cover designs it was also based on black publication like “The Crisis” He lived from 1898 to 1979 Jacob Lawrence Born in Atlanta he Younger than who spent most of his time took part in the era in Pennsylvania Lawrence was also at an angle to them: he His parents divorce was not interested in therefore he went the kind of idealized, with his mother to fake-primitive images Harlem of blacks - the Noble He trained as a Negroes in Art Deco painter inside a library guise he gained selfconfidence from the Harlem cultural milieu Just an artist as Alain Locke, Who strongly believed the possibility of an art which spoke explicitly to African American and embody the values who believed strongly in the possibility of an art created by blacks which could speak explicitly to AfricanAmericans and still embody the values, and self-critical powers, of modernism. The wedding Jacob Lawrence