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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
11.5.5 - Harlem Renaissance and New Trends
Describe the Harlem Renaissance and new trends in literature, music, and art, with special attention to the work of writers (e.g., Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes).
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Life for African Americans in the south was very difficult so around the early 1910's African Americans began migrating to Harlem, Manhattan. They looked for economic opportunities and freedom by moving to Harlem. W.E.B. Du Bois was a leader in the African American community and helped find the NAACP. Du Bois was an editor of the Magazine "The Crisis". The magazine talked about poetry, writing and arts for African Americans which was known as the Harlem Renaissance. Tens of thousands of African Americans lived in Harlem and they felt great pride in their race which spawned musicians, artists, writers and poets. Many poets and writers became well which helped to get African Americans to be a part of American literature. James Weldon Johnson, who was a man of many talents, sang the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing". Langston Hughes, a famous poet and writer, wrote about black defiance and also about hope. He published "The Weary Blues" in 1926 and his views affected the Harlem renaissance and American literature. Aaron Douglas, H. Johnson, and Jacob Lawrence were artist who often focused their work on experiences African Americans faced. The Harlem renaissance was also known as the Jazz era where people like Louis Armstrong changed the history of music.
Originally called the New Negro Movement, the Harlem Renaissance was a literary and intellectual flowering that fostered a new black cultural identity in the 1920s and 1930s. Critic and teacher Alain Locke described it as a "spiritual coming of age" in which the black community was able to seize upon its "first chances for group expression and self determination."
Black-owned magazines and newspapers flourished, freeing African Americans from the constricting influences of mainstream white society. Charles S. Johnson's Opportunity magazine became the leading voice of black culture, and W.E.B. DuBois's journal, The Crisis, with Jessie Redmon Fauset as its literary editor, launched the literary careers of such writers as Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen.
Other pepole of the period included writers Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Rudolf Fisher, Wallace Thurman, and Nella Larsen. The movement was in part given definition by two anthologies: James Weldon Johnson's The Book of American Negro Poetry and Alain Locke's The New Negro.
Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. Hughes's creative genius was influenced by his life in New York City's Harlem, a primarily African American neighborhood. His literary works helped shape American literature and politics. Hughes, like others active in the Harlem Renaissance, had a strong sense of racial pride. Through his poetry, novels, plays, essays, and children's books, he promoted equality, condemned racism and injustice, and celebrated African American culture, humor, and spirituality
youtube video on Langston Hughes: http://youtube.com/watch?v=3NFXmlLCmTw&feature=related
One of Langston Hughes' Poems:
April Rain Song
Let the rain kiss you Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops Let the rain sing you a lullaby The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk The rain makes running pools in the gutter The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
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Life for African Americans in the south was very difficult so around the early 1910's African Americans began migrating to Harlem, Manhattan. They looked for economic opportunities and freedom by moving to Harlem. W.E.B. Du Bois was a leader in the African American community and helped find the NAACP. Du Bois was an editor of the Magazine "The Crisis". The magazine talked about poetry, writing and arts for African Americans which was known as the Harlem Renaissance. Tens of thousands of African Americans lived in Harlem and they felt great pride in their race which spawned musicians, artists, writers and poets. Many poets and writers became well which helped to get African Americans to be a part of American literature. James Weldon Johnson, who was a man of many talents, sang the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing". Langston Hughes, a famous poet and writer, wrote about black defiance and also about hope. He published "The Weary Blues" in 1926 and his views affected the Harlem renaissance and American literature. Aaron Douglas, H. Johnson, and Jacob Lawrence were artist who often focused their work on experiences African Americans faced. The Harlem renaissance was also known as the Jazz era where people like Louis Armstrong changed the history of music.
-Zachary P. Per.1
American Anthem
Great job! Would love to see some samples of music and poems... maybe you could post some? GREAT job Zach!
The New Nergo Movement
Originally called the New Negro Movement, the Harlem Renaissance was a literary and intellectual flowering that fostered a new black cultural identity in the 1920s and 1930s. Critic and teacher Alain Locke described it as a "spiritual coming of age" in which the black community was able to seize upon its "first chances for group expression and self determination."
Black-owned magazines and newspapers flourished, freeing African Americans from the constricting influences of mainstream white society. Charles S. Johnson's Opportunity magazine became the leading voice of black culture, and W.E.B. DuBois's journal, The Crisis, with Jessie Redmon Fauset as its literary editor, launched the literary careers of such writers as Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen.
Other pepole of the period included writers Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Rudolf Fisher, Wallace Thurman, and Nella Larsen. The movement was in part given definition by two anthologies: James Weldon Johnson's The Book of American Negro Poetry and Alain Locke's The New Negro.
Chris Robinson Per.1
Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. Hughes's creative genius was influenced by his life in New York City's Harlem, a primarily African American neighborhood. His literary works helped shape American literature and politics. Hughes, like others active in the Harlem Renaissance, had a strong sense of racial pride. Through his poetry, novels, plays, essays, and children's books, he promoted equality, condemned racism and injustice, and celebrated African American culture, humor, and spirituality
youtube video on Langston Hughes:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3NFXmlLCmTw&feature=related
One of Langston Hughes' Poems:
April Rain Song
Let the rain kiss you
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
Let the rain sing you a lullaby
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk
The rain makes running pools in the gutter
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night
And I love the rain.
Langston Hughes
Chris Robinson Per.1
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