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The Harlem Renaissance
Mr. Oppel
AP US History
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“The Harlem Renaissance probed racial themes and
what it meant to be black in America”
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I. IntroductionA. Definition
Generic termdescribes Manhattan-based
(NYC) cultural movement1920s and 30s
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New York City
B. Location
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Manhattan Island
WTC
Central Park
Harlem
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C. European Origins
1. European ArtFrench artists study West African
sculpturePopularize artistic primitivism
SpontaneousInstinctive
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Amedeo Modigliani
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Pablo Picasso
•Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
•1907•African masks
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2. European Music
Incorporate syncopation from ragtime
Later reintroduced to jazz
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Sousa on Tour in Europe
1893 Chicago World’s Fair
touring repertoire began to include early ragtime cakewalks and syncopated songs
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introduced ragtime to Europe
Performances Paris
Exposition Kaiser
Wilhelm II of Germany
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Incorporate American jazz Claude DeBussy
Children’s Corner, 1906-8 Igor Stravinsky
Le Sacre duprintemps, 1913 Eric Satie
Parade, 1917
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Black jazz bands toured Europe during WWI
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D. American influences
Southern Counter- ReconstructionBlack CodesJim Crow laws
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WWI Experience in Europe
Harlem Hellfighters
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The Great Migration & Urbanization
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The Red Scare
The NEW YORK TIMES lamented the new black militancy:
"There had been no trouble with the Negro before the war when most admitted the superiority of the white race."
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Claude McKayIf We must Die, 1919
If we must die, let it not be like hogsHunted and penned in an inglorious spot,While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,Making their mock at our accursed lot.If we must die, O let us nobly die,So that our precious blood may not be shedIn vain; then even the monsters we defyShall be constrained to honor us though dead!O kinsmen we must meet the common foe!Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!What though before us lies the open grave?Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
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II. Harlem Renaissance
A. Activists B. Artists & PhotographersC. WritersD. Composers, Musicians,
Actors & Singers
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Prognostications“The nation was on the verge
of a ‘renaissance of American Negro literature’”
W.E.B. DuBois NAACP’s Crisis, 1920
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“America was ‘on the edge, if not already in the midst of, what might not improperly be called a Negro renaissance’”
New York Herald Tribune, 1925
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A. Activists
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Marcus Garvey1887-1940
Jamaican“Back to Africa”
movementUniversal Negro
Improvement Association
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Uniform of the “Provisional President of Africa”
Opened office in Harlem in 1917
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Black Star steamship line
Raised money to help blacks emigrate to Africa
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Liberia feared he was a revolutionary and pulled away its support
Jailed & deported to Jamaica, 1923
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African Folklore & Africanism
Alain Locke
W.E.B.DuBois
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B. Artists & Photographers
Aaron Douglas Jacob LawrenceLM JonesArthur J. Motley, Jr.James Van Der Zee
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Aaron Douglas
Painted muralsIllustrated The
Crisis and Opportunity
taught art at Fisk University
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Aaron Douglas
Aspects of Negro Life, 1934
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Into
Bondage,
1936
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L.M. JonesThe Ascent
of Ethiopia,
1932
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Arthur J. Motley, Jr.
1891 – 1981 Art Institute of ChicagoRealistic, urban subjects, jazz, &
abstract painting
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Cocktails, 1926
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MotleyBlues,
1929
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James Van Der Zee 1886 – 1983photographercelebrated the black middle
classbrought dignityreshaped the image of blackness
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"A Couple Wearing Raccoon Coats With a Cadillac, Taken on West
127th Street," photograph by James Van Der Zee, 1932
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Alpha Phi Alpha Basketball Team, 1926
Alpha Phi Basketball
Team,1926
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C. Writers
Countee CullenLangston Hughes Alain LockeClaude McKayWallace Thurman Jeane ToomerWalter White
Jessie FausetZora Neale
HurstonNella Larsen
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purpose of writing?
Many establishment blacks “wanted black writers to promote positive images”
The writers themselves wanted to show realism of life in Harlem
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African–American publications
NAACP Urban League
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The NAACP magazine
Art Aaron Douglas
Literature Countee Cullen Langston Hughes Clause McKay
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Claude McKay
Born in JamaicaWrote poetry
and novelsTried to use
poetry to inform as well as please
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Wrote poem “If We must Die” in response to a series of 1919 race riots
Fled to Soviet Union and Europe,1922In conflict with “Harlem Renaissance”
and claimed to be an older “forerunner”
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Langston HughesLived in MO and
ClevelandWorked or traveled
in Mexico, Europe, and Africa
Harlem Renaissance poet
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Stressed nobility of lowly walks of life, developed racial pride, place of AA in white world
Gained attention of whites and raised self-esteem of blacks
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Wrote in African-American vernacular
Brought rhythm of blues and jazz to writing process
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, “Negro”, “Harlem”, “Weary Blues”
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Zora Neale Hurston
Raised in all-black town in Florida near Orlando
Literary realism and consciousness of race issues like degree of skin-color
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“Color Struck”Mules and Men, 1935Their Eyes Were Watching
God, 1937
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D. Composers & Musicians
Jazz Music Clubs artists
Stage ConcertsBrodaway
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1. JAZZ
Harlem jazz cultureClubs, cabarets, theaters, ballrooms, rent parties
LiquorWhite and black worlds
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Musical originsAfrican AmericanSouthernpoorruralBlues, Negro Spirituals, Ragtime
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Criticism of jazz as music
“cacophpony” and “deliberate vulgarity”
“Bolshevistic smashing of the rules of music”
Jazzing and ad libbing
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as a cultural influencePromoted “daring couple dancing”
The “sex-exciting” music affected girls morals and threatened chaste girls
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White Clubs
segregatedshows and
musicblack staff
dance shows light-skinned
girls5’6” or tallerunder 21
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NEGROTARIANS
Hurston’s name for whites interested in Harlem lifefascinated with Negro culturestill condescended with views of exoticism and a lack of civilization
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Connie’s InnFats WallerBill “Bojangles”
RobisonLouis
Armstrong
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Cotton ClubCab Calloway
Duke Ellington
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Black Clubs
for blacksless expensivefood, music, no shows
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Duke Ellington, 1899 - ?
Went to NYC at 23Played with bands & then formed ownpianist, conductor, orchestratorImprovised wellRose to prominence from 1928 – 1934
playing at the Cotton Club in Harlem
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Jazz compositions 1928-34“The Mooche”“It Don’t Mean a Thing If It
Ain’t Got That Swing”“Mood Indigo”“Sophisticated Lady”
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Bessie Smith
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2. Negro Spirituals
Sung for musical meritNot baggage of
slaveryPerformers
Marian AndersonPaul Robeson
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3. BROADWAY
Eubie Blake & Noble SissleShuffle Along, 1921Chocolate Dandies, 1924
Fats WallerAin’t Misbehavin’
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White writers supported movementSherwood Anderson,
Sinclair Lewis, & Eugene O’NeilSecret financial benefactors
Tried to encourage the exoticism
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Paul Robeson
LawyerAthleteSingerActorPolitical radical
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Robeson won the title role in Eugene O’Neil’s Broadway play The Emperor Jones on a lark and improvised on stage into success
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George Gershwin Porgy and Bess
Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein Showboat
Eugene O’Neil The Emperor Jones All God’s Chillun Got Wings
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In London The Emperor
Jones Showboat, 1928 Othello, 1930
(picture on left from 1944)
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Better treatment in Europe led him to radicalismSocialismCommunismTies to U.S.S.R.
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Josephine Baker
Born in St. LouisPerforming by 15
as a singer and dancer
Expatriate
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Shuffle Along, 1921-23dancedsangclownedimprovised
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exoticism
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style
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showgirl
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clown
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sophisticated lady
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La Revue Negre
Paris, Francescantily claderotic dancing suggestive music
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“La Folie du Jour”
Paris, France, 1926 Folies Berger night club topless, banana skirt,
climbs down a tree like an animal
danced the charleston erotic and comic
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“the charleston”
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The end of a movement
By the late 20s & early 30sEconomic hardships with the
DepressionParticipants “moved on” Some prospered throughout the 30s
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Bibliography Harlem Renaissance
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/index.html Josephine Baker
http://www.cmgww.com/stars/baker/home.html Claude DeBussy
http://www.duke.edu/~aparks/class4.html Marcus Garvey
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/garvey/index.html http://www.isop.ucla.edu/mgpp/sound.htm http://www.isop.ucla.edu/mgpp/facts.htm
Amedeo Modigliani http://www.mystudios.com/gallery/modigliani/gallery_wall.html http://www.trindera.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Year%209/modigliani_and_african_art.htm
Pablo Picasso http://www.moma.org/collection/depts/paint_sculpt/blowups/paint_sculpt_006.html http://www.moma.org/collection/conservation/demoiselles/analysis_1_la.html http://cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/african-american/twentieth_century/cubism.htm http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~bcr/African_Mask.html
Red Summer http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_red.html