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- what is jazz
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american music characterized by improvosation, syncopated rhythms, and contrapuntal ensemble playing
- 20th century
-jazzed her="screwed her; something forbidden" - Plato...
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had censorship, banned complicated rhythms/ beats fearing loss of control of people
*music has direct access to the soul
*irrational music should be banned - jazz born in America, and was based on
- african american experience; white melodies
- who said "Rhythm of life is jazz rhythm" ?
- Lanston Hughes
- this person thought that jazz was not music...
- Daniel Gregory Mason
- What are the blues? where do they originate? give ex of famous blues singer.
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form of jazz confronting hard facts of life.
-new orleans
-Bessie Smith - this blues sold over 1 million albums
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Livery Stable Blues
*1st time brought to American public - what was the great migration?
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african americans go from south to north to find jobs.
-1918-1919
- Chicago became new center of jazz - Henry Ford attacked jazz in what way?
- started folk dance crusade (sponsored public schools to do it)
- what is the devils dance dance?
- the mix of races (socializing)
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Harlem Renaissance in NYC.
who was W. E.B. Divoce? - negro upperclass against jazz
- Langston Hughes...
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- emerged in Harlem Renaissance
-SUPPORTED JAZZ - Paul Whitman (white) supports jazz...
- most popular jazz band leader (george gershwin)
- Winold Weiss
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painted "portrait of Langston Hughes"
-backround modern
-still facing racial mountain - Aaron Douglas
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painted abstract "Harriet Tubman"
-conquored racial mountain
shows... (out of slavery, industrialized-freedom-North) - painting "Aspects of Negro Life; Song of the Towers"...describe
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- white hands luring the black man back
- "wheel", step forward toward industrialization - painting, "Rise Light for they light has come?"... describe
- women looking up with mouths open... singing motes below her
- "black and Tan"
- racial mix club
- what is the "new Negro"
- cosmopolitan, wealthy, reads poetry, knows art
- Contee cullens poem"yet do I marvel" is a ...
- ... sonnet which employs avery traditional form, and which conveys the narrators painful situation of being a black poet
- Countee Cullens poem "Heritage"...
- expresses his sense of being cut off his ethnic roots back in Africa
- Langston Hughes points out...
- ... african american artists who say that they want to be artists, no black artists, may suffer from a sense of racial inferiority which compels that to want to be like whites
- history is important Schromberg, Hughes, and Douglas bc...
- it provides examples of strength and power for the present, and give a sense of racial pride
- muscian, journalist, novelist "a dream deffered", "raisen in the Sun", "Black like me"
- Langston Hughes
- how does Armstrong's Westend Blues demonstrate elements of Jazz?
- consistent melody, harmonic, syncopated, improvosation
- what are the subject, technique, and content of Hughes "the Nergro Speaks of Rivers?"
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nile river part of African heritage\
-lyrical quality
-connection and heritage through river - what were Cullen's Works? (3)
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"yet do i marvel"
"heritage"
"incident" - what were Hughes works? (5)
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"Dream Variations"
"I, Too sing America"
"The negro speaks of Rivers"
"the weary blues"
"Harlem" - Louis Armstrong and the Savoy Ballroom Five had as a work...
- THE WEST END BLUES
- Ellington had a work called...
- Ko-Ko
- Weibold Reiss had...
- the portrait of Langston Hughes
- Aaron Douglas painted the...
- Harriet Tubman (rising with the slaves...)
- Schuyler work was...
- THE NEGRO-ART HOKUM
- Hughes had...
- "THE NEGRO ARTIST AND THE RACIAL MOUNTAIN"
- Schromberg had...
- "The Negro digs up his past"
- who was Aaron Douglas, and what was his artistic training?
- Artist, Bachelor in Fine Arts, at the University of Kansas
- Mural= reflection of black history, what was the mural at Bennett college (black womens college) like?
- Harriet Tubman, Spirits Rising
- what is an essay?
- non personal
- informal essay?
- personal, portrays personal thought supported by non personal fact
- what points does Schuyler make in his essay, "the Negro Art Hokum?"
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- black artists equally diverse as white artists
-to expect uniform style or subject matter was as insulting as the stereotypes that were being rejected - Harlem Renaissance=...
- New Negro Movement
- what does schromberg think about history being written?
- dig up past and find true place in life; should be scientific, not propoganda