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. ...

• Word Count: 1984
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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

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 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. ...

• Word Count: 2437
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

However, such issues as the relationship between the Harlem Renaissance and mainstream American culture, especially the relationship between African-American literature and white American culture and how white people have influenced the Harlem Renaissance have not been explored into. ... Across the culture spectrum (literature, drama, music, visual art, dance) and also in the realm of social thought (sociology, historiography, philosophy), artists and intellectuals found a new way to explore the historical experiences of black America. ... From the article The Caucasian storms Harlem written b...

• Word Count: 1512
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Music with different beats was being played like jazz, spirituals, and hymns. ... Black literature, art, music, and theater were recognized and very popular. ... It was the first time that African American literature was taken seriously and attracted so many people. ... Also a lot of his writing expressed how hard black life was, "The Weary Blues" written in 1926. He published an essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," where he introduced to the people black literary identity. ...

• Word Count: 2368
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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

Being me, it will not be white. ... That's American. ... 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. ... Thus a vitality is shown in him and his people which is not present in the hearts of the other students, simply because they are white and not in need of it. ...

• Word Count: 1896
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Being me, it will not be white. ... That's American. ... 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. ... Thus a vitality is shown in him and his people which is not present in the hearts of the other students, simply because they are white and not in need of it. ...

• Word Count: 1930
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School