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The Arts
The Motion Picture Industry
became movie capital of world.
silent films
musical accompaniment varied
usually an organ.
The Jazz Singer
1st “talking” picture
starred Al Jolson
in black-face.
1928
1st animated cartoon w/ sound
Walt Disney
introduced
Mickey Mouse.
Film
colorized films popular
each frame painted by hand.
film
became standard for
taste
styles
songs
morals.
tabloids
cheap movie magazines
by-products of movie industry.
Art Deco
Jazz
Ragtime
late 1890s
considered earliest form of jazz
Blues
developed simultaneously w/ Ragtime
influenced by slave spirituals/jubilees
Pre-WW I
minstrels
vaudeville
sentimental ballads
band music
“Jazz”
term not widely used until after WW I.
New Orleans Dixieland Jazz
traveled N 1st to Chicago.
“Jelly Roll” Morton
1st great Jazz composer/piano
player
imp transitional figure between
Ragtime/Jazz piano styles.
in 1920s/30s
THE jazz club
only best headlined.
known for music/floor shows
entertainers black
audiences primarily white.
helped make
Harlem
focal point of
northern Black
culture.
Louis
Armstrong
considered
1st “true” jazz musician.
born in New Orleans
1st master improviser
called “King of Jazz”
influenced many musicians.
"Louis Armstrong's station in the
history of jazz is unimpeachable. If it
weren't for him, there wouldn't be any
of us."
Dizzy Gillespie
1971
“Duke” Ellington
formed one of greatest jazz
bands in history
headlined
at Cotton Club
for yrs.
Bessie Smith
“empress of blues”
among most popular
recording artists of 20s.
The “New Negro”
Alain Locke
1st Black Rhodes scholar
Professor of Philosophy at Harvard
considered
“Father” of movement.
The Harlem Renaissance
Contributing Factors
“Great Migration” to N cities.
20s trend toward social experimentation.
Alain Locke
Marcus Garvey
↑ in radical Black intellectuals.
WEB DuBois
outburst of Af-Am creative activity
began in NYC
Harlem
1st called
“New Negro Movement”
beginning of Jazz Age in NYC
marked by acceptance of Af-Am
culture
literature
music.
Harlem is vicicous
Modernism. Bang Clash.
Vicicous the way its made,
Can you stand such beauty.
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
(Harlem) is romantic in its own right. And it is hard
and strong, its noise, heat, cold 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
Aaron
Douglas
work
exemplified
“New Negro”
included
murals on
buildings
cover art
illustrations for
The Crisis.
… Our problem is to conceive, develop, establish an art
era. Not white art painting black… lets 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
Zora Neal Hurston
Langston Hughes
self proclaimed calling
"to explain and illuminate the
Negro condition in America“
writings expressed
confidence
pride.
told stories of people that reflected Af-Am culture.
Claude Mckay
Countee Cullen
raised/educated in primarily white community
differed from other Harlem Renaissance poets
lacked cultural background to
comment from personal experience on lives of other Blacks
use popular Black themes in writing.
The Lost Generation
term coined by
Gertrude Stein
writers angered by shallowness of Am culture
concerned w/ rapid increase of materialism by middle class.
HL Mencken
“Bad Boy of Baltimore”
assailed
marriage
patriotism
democracy
prohibition
Rotarians
middle class “Booboisie”
called do-gooders “Puritans”
Puritanism
“haunting fear that someone,
somewhere, might be happy.”
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After
he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be
looking.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual
ignorance.
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than
Christianity has made them good.
F Scott Fitzgerald
acclaimed as spokesman for twenties
generation.
Ernest Hemmingway
fought in WWI
experience impacted writing.
Sinclair Lewis
chronicled mid-western life
acquisitive
amoral
hypocritical.
William Faulkner
considered by many
best Am novelist of 20th century.
Poets
TS Eliot
Robert Frost
ee cummings
Eugene O’Neil