Modes of Expression
Regarding written or spoken word
What is Linguistic?
Cab Calloway says she's a 'moocher'
Who is Minnie?
He asked, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"
Who is Langston Hughes?
Known as "the father of Black American art," he was a painter who specialized in blending together cubism and Egyptian art with Art Deco and modern design to create a unique African American abstract aesthetic.
Where is Harlem located?
What is New York?
Regarding images (moving or still)
What is visual?
He was a famous composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra that often played at The Cotton Club; One of his famous songs is "Take the A Train"
Who is Duke Ellington?
She broke literary norms by focusing her most famous work on the experience of a Black woman.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
He painted "Jitterbug V" in a modern aesthetic
Who is William H. Johnson
It was this ten year period that the Harlem Renaissance occurred
What is 1920's-1930's?
Regarding sound or music
What is Aural?
Considered one of the best jazz vocalists of all time and was nicknamed "Lady Day." One of her famous songs is "Strange Fruit"
Who is Billie Holiday?
The year in which Their Eyes Were Watching God was written.
What is 1937?
This is the instrument Augusta Savage's sculptures named after
What is Harp?
A famous jazz night club that features performances from musicians such as Duke Ellington and dancers such as Josephine Baker
What is The Cotton Club?
Regarding movements, expression, and body language
What is Gestural?
Otherwise known as "The First Lady of Song" and "Queen of Jazz," she sang "It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)" with Duke Ellington.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
This is the "she" Claude Mckay refers to in the following:
"Although she feeds me bread of bitterness/ and sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth/ stealing my breath of life"
Who is America?
Archibald Motley Jr. painted a portrait of this woman
Who is my grandmother?
A revival of art and literature, as well as renewed interests; it means "rebirth"
What is a Renaissance?
Regarding position, physical arrangement, and proximity
What is Spatial?
One of the most famous jazz trumpeters.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Who is Gwendolyn Bennett?
This is the fruit that the woman in Richmond Barthe's sculpture is carrying
What is blackberry?
The movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban North
What is The Great Migration?