American Nation 2
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- Music combining a variety of musical styles; originated with African American musicians in New Orleans and gained national popularity in the 1920's.
- jazz
- Music that grew out of slave music and religious spirituals; featured heartfelt lyrics and altered or slurred notes that echoed the mood of the lyrics.
- blues
- A blues singer. In 1923 her hit "Down Hearted Blues" sold more than 500,000 copies.
- Bessie Smith
- Was a great trumpet player. He played with the Creole Jazz Band before starting a successful solo career.
- Louis Armstrong
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An Africian-American poet.
"Why would I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful". - Langston Hughes
- He was seriously wounded while serving on the Italian front, expressed his anger at the uselessness of war in his works, in 1929 wrote "A Farewell to Arms".
- Ernest Hemmingway
- A group of writers whose works reflected the horrors of the death and destruction of World War I and criticized consumerism and superficiality in postwar society.
- Lost Generation
- A writer who chronicled the Jazz Age and his own life mirrored his characters. Wrote "The Great Gatsby" and "This Side of Paradise".
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A photographer in the 1900's.
He operated an influential New York gallery. - Alfred Stieglitz
- He painted murals and focused on worker's problems and industrial development in his American murals.
- Diego Rivera