Furthermore a people's culture is expressed through its works, whether it be in politics, literature, athletics, or art. ... African American music has been called "( ) the musical Lingua Franca of the world [because] everyone listens to African American music and relates to it."... The next era of African American music was called, "Classical African American Music (1860s -1950s)." ... This music did a great deal for the African American community. ... Lastly, African American music leads to the establishment of various schools, for African Americans, that offered degrees in the arts and...

• Word Count: 4223
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Negro's Contribution to American Art and Literature. ... The American Negro, His History and Literature; Variation: American Negro, His History and Literature. ... The critics, like the writers, were monolithic thinkers, some critics considered the literature a "disservice" to African American interests, some praised the freedom of expression and experimentation of the writers; and others called on the conjoining of the literature with political, social, and literary agendas. ... Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition. ... ...

• Word Count: 2542
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The Negro's Contribution to American Art and Literature. ... The American Negro, His History and Literature; Variation: American Negro, His History and Literature. ... The critics, like the writers, were monolithic thinkers, some critics considered the literature a "disservice" to African American interests, some praised the freedom of expression and experimentation of the writers; and others called on the conjoining of the literature with political, social, and literary agendas. ... Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition. ... ...

• Word Count: 2542
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural birth that emphasized the artistic and intellectual abilities of African Americans. ... Literature of the Harlem Renaissance In the early 1920s, three works signaled the new creative African American energy in literature. ... 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 and exciting nightlife and stimulated a national market for African American literature and music. ... Langston Hughes was one of the poets who published many works o...

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

The literature, like the music, depends on a communal understanding, and the creativity is held together by a constant beat, like the double bass in an improvisation. ... The streams of consciousness almost seem beyond the prose style of the novel, rather they present to us a poetic state that provide the rhythm and conscious of music, rather than literature. ... The reader must observe that the singing is an allusion to the community itself, their own emotion and their acceptance of others, a powerful tool to be used to explain the survival of the African-American slaves in a detrimental so...

• Word Count: 3100
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography

The book was focused on the primitive modern sense of what it meant to be an African-American during the Harlem Renaissance. ... 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. ... However, by 1922 his work had appeared in many magazines including Double Dealer that sought to publish African-American poets and writers. ... Georgia forces the mixed-race Kabnis, who could be an allusion to Toomer himself, to confront the African-American past. ...

• Word Count: 3347
• Approx Pages: 13