Duke Ellington

from which they could re-define the degrading nature of the Negro identity with strives in literature, music, and poetry. Artists like poet Langston Hughes fought to destroy the stereotype that African-Americans were lazy and stupid, musician Duke Ellington helped cultivate the nation’s very first musical export, jazz. Tuned into the jazz craze was the Flapper Movement, during which women challenged the social norms of the older generation by donning short skirts and sleeveless gowns, bobbing…

This essay is solely based on the German philosopher Kant Immanuel and British philosopher Thomas Hobbes in relation to their study on morals. Both philosophers have their own understanding on the topic of morality in which both perceive ideas in their own way. Kant leans toward more of a rationalistic view of morality, emphasizing the mandatory need to ground the prior principle. Meanwhile, Hobbes has taken more of an empirical view of the fact that we ought to do what we believe in is in…

On December 11th, a Sunday night, I went to Les Joulins Jazz Bistro to listen to Bill “Doc” Webster and his band Jazz Nostalgia. Me and my friend were seated at a table for two, fairly close to the stage. The stage was not elevated and the musicians stood close to the tables and interacted with the audience in between songs. It made the overall feeling of the concert very laid back and non formal. The restaurant was not very crowded, but of the people that were there there was a wide mix of…

Black Homosexuality in the 1930s During the 1920, a reform took place in Harlem. Afro Americans owned 60% of the businesses, jazz music was a new and popular genre of music, and it was a time of national innovation. This period was called the Harlem Renaissance. Harlem was and still is the city with the most concentrated population of black people. The 1930s was not as prosperous as the roaring 20s. The Great Depression hit the nation, but in particular, the already poorly funded black community…

The Harlem Renaissance had a vast impact on many people that inspired and influenced many individuals during the 1920s through 30s and even now. Proving themselves as any other, African Americans felt undoubtedly assertive performing through many forms of art. Typically, they represented themselves through fashion, dance, writings and music to express their culture as a whole. Many African Americans created art to show assertion and confidence. Likewise, expression was seen in art, showing the…

When I have music, I want to feel its vibration, not only with my ear but with my whole body, says the narrator of Invisible Man when he tries to justify his desire for listening Louis Armstrong’s song not on one, but on five radio-phonographs. Ralph Ellison’s novel is, in the first place, a radiography of a society in which the identity search was one of the most complicated tasks an African American could have achieved, because of the racism that was projected over them, creating a state of…

stakes. Along with dance other forms of expressionism became more popular. Writing in America took off and many well known authors were in the 1920s. Names include F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner. Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington were popular musicians that got their start in the 1920s as well. Alice’s Wonderland was also produced in this decade. Technology developed as well in this time period that helped along with dance techniques. The radio also became quite…

A Reflection of Rock and Roll There is no doubt that throughout the decades rock and roll music has changed and been influenced by cultural and social events. The only way to explain these changes is to start at the beginning. These changes started as early as, or even earlier than the 1920’s. That is where we will begin all the way until today’s music. In the 1920s music was dominated by blues and jazz. The blues primarily came from African American slaves mostly in the south. A lot of the…

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to define and explore the socioeconomic changes of Roaring 20s, and reveal its prevalence in modern day America. In order to better comprehend the topic discussed, the analysis will divided into five subsections of study: 1) The New World of the 1920s and the Government System, 2) The Affection of economic to Urbanization and City Life, 3) How the Harlem Renaissance affected racial tension in America, 4) The Party Atmosphere during the 1920s, and 5) The…

countries before his father came to the United States. Eretgun interest for music came to him at a young age when traveling the country with this family and seeing different kinds of artist. Some of the artist he saw in London was, Caleb Colloway and Duke Ellington. So when now living in American Eretgun became a regular at…