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...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

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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• Approx Pages: 4

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...

• Word Count: 824
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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 ...

• Word Count: 1300
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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....

• Word Count: 1369
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Langston Hughes was America's Jazz Poet, the chronicler of life in Harlem in the 1920s. ... In 1926 Hughes's first book, The Weary Blues, was published to a chorus of praise from black and white reviewers alike. ... In 1927, he wrote one of his best-known Smith 5 essays, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain." ... Afterward, a group of Hughes's closest friends recited on of his best-known poems, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." ... His support for left-wing politics and his sympathy for repressed people made him a popular figure worldwide, and sometimes a controversial o...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School