Jazz music was a blend of West African and Latin rhythms, African American spirituals and blues, and European harmonies. ... As this happened, white musicians began incorporating jazz into their music, while big bands, both black and white popularized it for dancing. Quite possibly the greatest cultural changes came about with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in Harlem, New York, of African American actors, artists, writers, and musicians. ... The Harlem Renaissance was above all a literary movement, when famous novelists such as Claude McKay, and Langston Hughes produced work ...

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These events help to show the slow acceptance and influence of African American culture on white America. ... Many large groups of jazz musicians began to play together, after the model of society dance bands. ... Started by African-American intellectuals like Alain Locke, W.E.B. ... Countee Cullen used both African and European images to explore the African roots of black American life. ... Writers McKay, Hughes, and Cullen, actor and musician Paul Robeson, dancer Josephine Baker, and others traveled to Europe and attained a popularity abroad that rivaled or surpassed what they achieved in...

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In the early 1900s, particularly in the 1920s, African-American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, a section of New York City. ... More than a literary movement, the Harlem Renaissance exalted the unique culture of African-Americans and redefined African-American expression. ... African-Americans was encouraged to celebrate their heritage. ... Thematic content included Africa as a source of inspiration, African-American history, folk idioms, including music and religion of the South, and social injustice. ... Never before had so many Americans rea...

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In the early 1900s, particularly in the 1920s, African-American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, a section of New York City. ... More than a literary movement, the Harlem Renaissance elevated the unique culture of African-Americans and redefined African-American expression. African-Americans were encouraged to celebrate their heritage. ... It was an African-American company, but it only performed plays written by whites because plays written by African-Americans were not yet allowed. It was a unique experience for African-Americans to see Africa...

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On the same token, "Hughes captures the African American's journey to America in what is perhaps his signature poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (Joyce). ... As he wrote, he thought about the blacks who had been kidnapped from Africa and brought over to America to serve as slaves. ... If any African Americans dared challenge these laws, they were physically threatened, beaten, executed with a gun, or lynched. ... The black mother and her progeny, who abandoned their spirituality but refined it into music, poetry and dance, are now seen for their true value, revealed in the light as ...

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His father was not happy with the way African Americans were being treated so he moved to Mexico. ... He was elected in his class because there was only one other African American and she was was a girl. The class like most of America thought that most African Americans can sing and dance so they thought that Langston would have rhythm. ... Woodson, who worked with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. ... Langston was always trying to help African Americans learn to love White Americans. ...

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Many African- American poets such as Langston Hughes found their place in this movement. ... According to her, the Depression caused a drastic decline in the distribution of African-American artwork, bringing it to an end. ... Starting just after World War I and ending by the Great Depression, Green says that this movement inspired dance, music, poetry, fashion, and, he jokes, "probably a novelty cocktail" (Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance). ... He also gives examples of many important writers, journalists, singers, dancers, and other artists who gave inspiration and life...

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