Harlem Renaissance Art
True/False. Most of the artwork during this time was photographs and paintings
True
What are the characteristics of Blues?
Vocal or instrumental form of music based on lower melody sung or played at lower pitch
Who is the leader of the Harlem Renaissance?
Langston Hughes
The Harlem Renaissance saw the development of three things...
Art, Music, and Literature
Langston Hughes's literary art form
What is "jazz poetry?"
Harlem Renaissance Artwork deals with....
Urban life, cities, African Americans in society, night clubs and dancing, and injustices
What are charactersitics about Swing/Jive?
What is strong and fast rhythm section with brass instruments
Name one Langston Hughes poem
I, Too
Harlem
Mother to Son
I Dream a World
The Harlem Renaissance took place because of...
The Great Migration, African Americans moving from rural areas to urban cities
Author of Their Eyes Were Watching God
Who was Zora Neale Hurston
Name one artist.
William H. Johnson
Palmer Hayden
Archibald Motley
What are the characteristics of jazz?
What is fast rhythms, improvisation, and swinging notes
Name three Harlem Renaissance authors.
The Harlem Renaissance took place in...
Harlem, New York
Jamaican writer and poet who wrote "If We Must Die"
The setting for many of the paintings was...
cities
Duke Ellington and Ella FitzGerald are...
Jazz Artists
Name three styles of literature during this time.
poetry, novels, short stories, biographies, plays, essays, etc.
African Americans were escaping...
discrimination and Jim Crow laws in the South
Professor of creative literature and writing at Fisk University.
Who was James Weldon Johnson?
Provide two styles of art during this time.
abstractism, realism, postmodern
Name one Blues artist
Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Lucille Bogan
Langston Hughes's I Too, Sing America was about...
What is Discrimination and Segregation
The Harlem Renaissance took place in during what time period?
1920's and 1930's
He wrote The Souls of Black Folk.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois