Harlem Renaissance Music

Key Figures

100

This musician became famous for his trumpet playing 

Louis Armstrong

200

What was Thomas Waller's nickname? 

'Fats' 

300

How old was Duke Ellington when he wrote his first composition 

15 years old

400

These 2 singers used blues and jazz to highlight social injustice

Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith

500

This blues singer was known as the "Empress of the Blues"

Bessie Smith

Cultural Impact

100

This style of music became the foundation for many modern genres today

Jazz

200

Harlem Renaissance music influenced this movement for equality

Civil Rights Movement

300

Lots of performers refused to play for audiences separated by this system 

Segregation

400

Jazz spread internationally across this body of water

Atlantic Ocean

500

Harlem Renaissance music helped challenge these unfair ideas about African Americans 

Racial stereotypes

Origin of the Movement

100

This migration helped bring African American musical traditions to northern cities

Great Migration 

200

This style of music is known for sadness and strong emotion and it influenced jazz during the Harlem Renaissance

Blues

300

This type of music became the most popular sound of Harlem Renaissance

Jazz

400

This New York City was the center of the Harlem Renaissance

Harlem

500

Southern city known as an early birthplace of jazz before it spread to Harlem

New Orleans 

Random

100

This is when musicians make up music as they play

Improvisation

200

This poet and writer helped connect literature with jazz 

Langston Hughes

300

This type of singing where one person leads and others respond 

Call-and-response

400

This event in the 1930s caused the Harlem Renaissance to slow down

Great Depression

500

This type of performance venue, began opening more to African American artists

Theaters