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what is jazz
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american music characterized by improvosation, syncopated rhythms, and contrapuntal ensemble playing
- 20th century -jazzed her="screwed her; something forbidden" |
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Plato...
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had censorship, banned complicated rhythms/ beats fearing loss of control of people
*music has direct access to the soul *irrational music should be banned |
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jazz born in America, and was based on
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african american experience; white melodies
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who said "Rhythm of life is jazz rhythm" ?
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Lanston Hughes
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this person thought that jazz was not music...
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Daniel Gregory Mason
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What are the blues? where do they originate? give ex of famous blues singer.
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form of jazz confronting hard facts of life.
-new orleans -Bessie Smith |
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this blues sold over 1 million albums
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Livery Stable Blues
*1st time brought to American public |
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what was the great migration?
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african americans go from south to north to find jobs.
-1918-1919 - Chicago became new center of jazz |
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Henry Ford attacked jazz in what way?
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started folk dance crusade (sponsored public schools to do it)
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what is the devils dance dance?
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the mix of races (socializing)
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Harlem Renaissance in NYC.
who was W. E.B. Divoce? |
negro upperclass against jazz
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Langston Hughes...
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- emerged in Harlem Renaissance
-SUPPORTED JAZZ |
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Paul Whitman (white) supports jazz...
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most popular jazz band leader (george gershwin)
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Winold Weiss
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painted "portrait of Langston Hughes"
-backround modern -still facing racial mountain |
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Aaron Douglas
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painted abstract "Harriet Tubman"
-conquored racial mountain shows... (out of slavery, industrialized-freedom-North) |
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painting "Aspects of Negro Life; Song of the Towers"...describe
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- white hands luring the black man back
- "wheel", step forward toward industrialization |
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painting, "Rise Light for they light has come?"... describe
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women looking up with mouths open... singing motes below her
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"black and Tan"
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racial mix club
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what is the "new Negro"
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cosmopolitan, wealthy, reads poetry, knows art
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Contee cullens poem"yet do I marvel" is a ...
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... sonnet which employs avery traditional form, and which conveys the narrators painful situation of being a black poet
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Countee Cullens poem "Heritage"...
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expresses his sense of being cut off his ethnic roots back in Africa
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Langston Hughes points out...
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... african american artists who say that they want to be artists, no black artists, may suffer from a sense of racial inferiority which compels that to want to be like whites
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history is important Schromberg, Hughes, and Douglas bc...
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it provides examples of strength and power for the present, and give a sense of racial pride
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muscian, journalist, novelist "a dream deffered", "raisen in the Sun", "Black like me"
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Langston Hughes
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how does Armstrong's Westend Blues demonstrate elements of Jazz?
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consistent melody, harmonic, syncopated, improvosation
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what are the subject, technique, and content of Hughes "the Nergro Speaks of Rivers?"
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nile river part of African heritage\
-lyrical quality -connection and heritage through river |
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what were Cullen's Works? (3)
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"yet do i marvel"
"heritage" "incident" |
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what were Hughes works? (5)
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"Dream Variations"
"I, Too sing America" "The negro speaks of Rivers" "the weary blues" "Harlem" |
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Louis Armstrong and the Savoy Ballroom Five had as a work...
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THE WEST END BLUES
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Ellington had a work called...
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Ko-Ko
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Weibold Reiss had...
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the portrait of Langston Hughes
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Aaron Douglas painted the...
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Harriet Tubman (rising with the slaves...)
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Schuyler work was...
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THE NEGRO-ART HOKUM
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Hughes had...
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"THE NEGRO ARTIST AND THE RACIAL MOUNTAIN"
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Schromberg had...
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"The Negro digs up his past"
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who was Aaron Douglas, and what was his artistic training?
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Artist, Bachelor in Fine Arts, at the University of Kansas
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Mural= reflection of black history, what was the mural at Bennett college (black womens college) like?
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Harriet Tubman, Spirits Rising
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what is an essay?
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non personal
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informal essay?
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personal, portrays personal thought supported by non personal fact
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what points does Schuyler make in his essay, "the Negro Art Hokum?"
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- black artists equally diverse as white artists
-to expect uniform style or subject matter was as insulting as the stereotypes that were being rejected |
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Harlem Renaissance=...
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New Negro Movement
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what does schromberg think about history being written?
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dig up past and find true place in life; should be scientific, not propoganda
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