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Music combining a variety of musical styles; originated with African American musicians in New Orleans and gained national popularity in the 1920's.
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jazz
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Music that grew out of slave music and religious spirituals; featured heartfelt lyrics and altered or slurred notes that echoed the mood of the lyrics.
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blues
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A blues singer. In 1923 her hit "Down Hearted Blues" sold more than 500,000 copies.
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Bessie Smith
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Was a great trumpet player. He played with the Creole Jazz Band before starting a successful solo career.
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Louis Armstrong
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An Africian-American poet.
"Why would I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful". |
Langston Hughes
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He was seriously wounded while serving on the Italian front, expressed his anger at the uselessness of war in his works, in 1929 wrote "A Farewell to Arms".
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Ernest Hemmingway
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A group of writers whose works reflected the horrors of the death and destruction of World War I and criticized consumerism and superficiality in postwar society.
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Lost Generation
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A writer who chronicled the Jazz Age and his own life mirrored his characters. Wrote "The Great Gatsby" and "This Side of Paradise".
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A photographer in the 1900's.
He operated an influential New York gallery. |
Alfred Stieglitz
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He painted murals and focused on worker's problems and industrial development in his American murals.
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Diego Rivera
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