African-American music

The media today is cluttered with negative images of African American males. I believe that something needed to be done about it. The media has such a huge impact on today’s society. Things that you see and hear in the media are affecting good people in a very bad and harmful way. I believe that the media doesn’t see the harmful stigmas that it is placing on a whole group of people and the consequences that it has for them. This is very disheartening because it is keeping racial stereotypes and…

The Harlem Renaissance was a period in which African American arts were celebrated with vivacity through prominent individuals. This was the result of, “… the Great Migration of African Americans from rural to urban spaces and from South to North… [which] opened up socioeconomic opportunities and developing race pride” (Gale). The reason for the movement was due to “economic depression… and racial tension” (Songs of the Soul). These African Americans migrated to metropolises such as New York,…

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The first movement literature at no time in American history African-American writers gathered in the same place at the same time, such writers as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Paul Lawrence Dunbar and insular Hurston and many more. These writers created an environment and network that had never been seen before they were able to create poetry clubs throughout Harlem given the opportunity for young writers to display their skills and they would not network with each other not meeting weekly…

Renaissance was a time when the African American community flourished. It was a time of great discovery, mostly in the arts. Many wonderful African American poets, authors, musicians, and artists emerged during this period and are still highly regarded to this day. Those that rose up created a voice for the African American community, and paved the path for others to join them. The explosion of cultural pride during the Harlem Renaissance led to social change for African American rights and…

The historical suffering of the African-American people through exploitation and persecution by the white ruling classes started with the exploration of Africa by Europeans. In the modern era from the colonial times to the Civil Right Act of 1965 this suffering and the black historical significance became marginalized, and neglected in the dominant white cultural history. Playwright Suzanne Lori-Parks captures the violent and brutal treatment of the African-American people along with their rich…

Hill’s ways of not conforming to the ways of the music industry as well as creating her own style of music, that is both creative and truly inspirational. Creation in this song exposes the fact that the music industry can be a dangerous place. Two lines stated, “the industry was beating her up, then those demons started eating her up.” Although, while it can be a dangerous place, artists need to stand their ground and continue sharing their music with the world.…

After decades of persecution through sharecropping and Jim Crow laws, as well as agricultural misfortune in the American South, millions of African-Americans left the southern states in hopes for decent jobs and higher quality of life in the more urbanized, industrialized sections of the United States (“Great Migration”). All of the sudden, a whole new world of business, art, multiculturalism, intellectualism, and nightlife was in front of a people who had been held captive, both in the literal…

Gilbert Scott-Heron was an African-American author, poet, musician, and composer. Furthermore, Scott-Heron was very active in the soul, jazz, and hip-hop genre. Scott-Heron released this the poem “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” at the age of twenty-one and has been sampled by multiple singers such as Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Common, Queen Latifah and more. Revolution defines a fundamental change in political power or organizational structures that takes place when the population rises up…

known as “Bricktop,” was an African-American woman living during the Harlem Renaissance. Bricktop’s first job was as a singer in a nightclub called the Barron’s Exclusive Club. Bricktop sang along side Duke Ellington, a popular African-American jazz musician, among others. Bricktop lived in France for big part of her life. One of the many of the things she did there was she replaced the lead singer at a club called Le Grand Duc. Becoming a lead singer as an African-American in France was a rare…