Leroi Jones book, 'Blues People: Negro Music in White America' offers insight into jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history. ... The White Negro is a 9,000 word essay by Norman Mailer that recorded a number of young white people in the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's who liked jazz and swing music so much that they adopted black culture as their own. The "white Negroes" adopted black clothing styles, black jive language, and black music. ... One of the early figures in the white negro phenomenon was jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow, an American Je...

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The roots of blues music can be traced to Negro spirituals. ... Blues music is very structured in its form. ... During the Second World War, blues migrated to urban communities, as black people moved to major cities seeking work. ... Unlike blues, rap grew out of black urban America. ... In 2011, African Americans were reported to have about 16 times as many gonorrhea cases as their white counterparts. ...

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Throughout the twentieth century, music in America has played a significant role in defining its culture, and Black composers have made significant contributions towards shaping American music.1 Beginning in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Black composers produced primarily ragtime, jazz, spirituals and blues rather than classical compositions because Whites considered Blacks to be inferior and undereducated.2 These ideas could be seen in reviews of newspapers and magazines that discussed Black performances. ... Krehbiel, who complained: "Why savages who have never develop...

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As the only Negro attending a white school he was occasionally exposed to beatings from other students and insults from one of the teachers. ... As Langston later recalls "So I learned early not to hate all white people," "And ever since it has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been." ... Langston was fascinated by black music especially the blues. It seemed to express for him the sadness and pain and capacity to endure that characterized black people of America. ... They remind us with all the unpleasantness there is no shame in ...

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It was time for the African American people to express their culture. ... Music, poetry, jazz, blues and musical theater were flourishing for the African American in Harlem. ... (Gayle 2) He started to look for a job, however; employers were looking for white people only. ... He felt protection, because his people "The Negroes" surrounded him as he pointed out in his works. ... In addition, he tells to the "white" people, look at all what the Africans has accomplished. ...

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The Blues was an African American music played for many years in the south and in way singers were expressing themselves. Through the Blues, L. ... Here in his poem he considers his self as almost a composer of blues music, and plays with the rhymes and the rhythms as a musician. ... For James Baldwin a great writer of the beginning of the twentieth century Langston Hughes is always making "sermons, blues and prayers" (216) at the same time like in the poems Mother to son and The Negro Speaks of Rivers. ... With the same idea of sermons, blues and prayers the poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers st...

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Jazz Age The Jazz Age was the time in history where the soulful ness of the East met the American "white" culture. ... These events help to show the slow acceptance and influence of African American culture on white America. ... A uniquely American art form, jazz traced its birth to a combination of ragtime, marching band music, and the blues. " The spontaneity and excitement of the music produced by black artists 'riffing' on old blues and classical themes found a ready outlet in the New York of the post-war era."... During the Harlem Renaissance the idea of the "New Negro" beca...

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During the Harlem Renaissance, African-American music, theater, art, and politics flourished. ... The Harlem Renaissance brought African-American literature and art to the attention of "White America". ... During the Harlem Renaissance, African-American music (jazz, blues, and swing), theatre, art, and politics prospered and were recognized by the mainstream population of America. ... Out of the Harlem Renaissance, which was also known as the New Negro Movement, developed great American artists. ... This new style of music caught the attention of many white Americans and soon became the most ...

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This African-American cultural movement became known as "The New Negro Movement" and later as the Harlem Renaissance. ... He further believed that his people could not achieve social equality by emulating white ideals, that equality could be achieved only by teaching Black racial pride with an emphasis on an African cultural heritage. ... In Harlem in the 1920's many people, both African-American and white, attended vaudeville shows, dramas, and Broadway plays performed by African-Americans. ... In Harlem, jazz music was extremely popular and influential. ... Jazz was an influential add...

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Ever since the African Americans had their independence in 1963, the white people started to appreciate them for who they are as musicians, athletes, pastors, poets, mayors and inventors. Through the years they loved Negro music from 1920 - 2003, the United States, Canada and other countries imitate our speech, dress and act like us, this shows that African American culture is becoming an influence in every culture... First, almost certainly, the field secular music was the forerunner of the blues, which appeared in the 1890s and was such an important aspect of jazz and the gutbucket feature o...

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The movement pushed for black self-assertion against white privilege and supremacy, advocated the term 'Negro' as a word of pride. ... During the early 1920's when Toomer was writing there was much emphasis on becoming a 'New Negro', forging a new identity for ones self through the mediums of literature, art and music. ... It is neither white nor black nor in-between. ... Many African-American writers considered Toomer as a 'race traitor' as he so desperately tried to 'challenge his culture's demand for absolute distinctions between white and bl...

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[these songs] had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going." ... (Life of Langston Hughes, 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America) He wrote in this essay, "We younger Negro artists now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. ... If colored people are pleased we are glad. ... Nevertheless, his love of gospel music led to other acclaimed stage efforts, usually mixing words, music, and dance in an atmosphere of improvisation. ...

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African Americans were encouraged to celebrate their heritage and to become "The New Negro," term coined in 1925 by sociologist and critic Alain LeRoy Locke. ... In his influential book The New Negro (1925), Locke described the northward migration of African Americans as "something like a spiritual emancipation." ... White gardenias, worn in her hair, became her trademark. ... Langston entered Columbia University and began living in Harlem, at that time an elegant section on the northern end of Manhattan Island that African American people were making their own. ... Hughes's poetry ...

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It began in the early 1920's where African American literature, art, music, and dance began to flourish in Harlem, a neighboorhood in New York City. This African American cultural movement became known as the "The New Negro Movement" and later was called the Harlem Renaissance. ... Black owned magazines and newspapers flourished, freeing African Americans from the influences of the white society. ... The literature appealed to the African American middle class and to the white book buying public. ... Langston Hughes once said "The ordinary Negro hasn't heard of the Negro Renaissance....

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His first published poem was "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". ... Knopf published Hughes's first book of poetry titled "The Weary Blues". ... John Alden Carpenter, William Grant Still and others have set many of them to music. ... Hughes wanted to tell the tales of his people in a way that reflected their culture, including both suffering and their love for music, laughter and language itself. ... His skill and insight to the Negro people is comparable to Chaucer's treatment of his Canterbury pilgrims. ...

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The New Negro is defined as a person who calls for social order and demands that blacks fight back against racism and segregation in American society. ... This new sense of pride also emerged in the form of literature, music, and theater. ... Many of the experiences described by these black writers, and even some white writers took place in the capital of black America, Harlem, New York. ... Black music became very popular all over the United States and Europe. White People came to Harlem in droves. ...

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909 by W. ... The movement symbolized the militant ethnic pride of the New Negro, the fervent belief in the beauty and nobility of an African homeland, and the deep cultural cleft between Black and White America. ... This meant he felt that Negro people would have to develop self-sufficiency and no longer rely on seemingly altruistic efforts of other people. ... The book showed both sides of Harlem, helping create a "Negro vogue- that drew thousands of New Yorkers, black and white, to Harlem's exotic a...

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The "Roaring Twenties" was a time of prosperity for America where people used their wealth to get away from traditional ideas and inhibitions. Using this new wealth and prosperity, some people made donations to the Ku Klux Klan. ... Jazz and blues music had a tremendous effect on all of Hughes" poems. ... A dancing girl whose eyes are bold Lifts high a dress of silken gold. (1-8) While some of Hughes" works were about the music it self and the life style surrounding it, other poems were actually jazz or blues songs. ... O Blues! ...

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It is obvious that the exact issues they wrote about were not similar, as Hughes, a black man from the South, whose life spanned 1902-1967 and Sexton, a white woman from Northeastern America, and lived from 1928-1974. Through poetic verse Hughes exhibits life of the African American trials and tribulations, as Sexton creates a similar aura of women in her work. She casts the burden of life as a woman onto her readers as Hughes does of the African American culture. ... Hughes is well know for the influence of jazz and bebop music in his poetry, both as a subject matter and as a structure" (D...

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African American Music By 1945, nearly everyone in the African American community had heard gospel music (2). At this time, gospel music was a sacred folk music with origins in field hollers, work songs, slave songs, Baptist lining hymns, and Negro spirituals. ... The African American gospel song had a unique power and ability to overcome. ... The music that Mahalia and Fred listened to as children, (Dixieland music from various dance halls in their town) was music for the common people. ... DuBois, told her that she had better stop hollering and insisted that she would have a better appea...

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Although this amendment was put in place to "save" America from the evil of drink, it literally killed an estimated 50 000 people, and as well, bad booze lead to hundreds of thousands of cases of blindness and paralysis. ... People were amazed that they could now hear the voice of their own President in their very own living room! ... The entertainment of "gossip" was fuelled by the media, and Americans could watch listen or read about other people's lives. ... American heroes emerged. ... It gave people, especially the youth and woman, new lifestyles and notions of social and sexual f...

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White poetry written about the experiences of white people was the only kind of verse most folks had ever heard. ... Hughes first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published by Alfred A. ... He wanted to tell the stories of his people in ways that reflected their actual culture, including both their suffering and their love of music, laughter, and language itself. Hughes did not confine himself to revealing just the cadences of black music to his readers. ... If white people are pleased, we are glad. ...

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African American females are unique human beings. ... The first African American Woman I want to discuss is Phillis Wheatley born in Gambia, Africa in 1753. ... Her first name was derived from the ship that carried her to America, The Phillis. ... Another source said she was part Chippewa Indian, part African-American, and an orphan. ... Elizabeth Blackwell, the first white American woman physician to receive a medical degree. ...

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New Orleans is described in the novel as a poor province, nevertheless unlike corresponding cities in America it is known to have a "raffish charm." ... x=5977|1||||cars|AA1VDw">Car Named Desire was written was just subsequent to the slave trade so the major work force in Elysian Fields must have been of the Negro society. Although it is said that blues music by Negro entertainers is being played at a bar room around the corner, the sign that there is a mixed ethnicity is shown in the stage directions where it has "one white and one coloured taking in the air at the top of the building", whi...

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