Cultural Impact Of The Harlem Renaissance

Jazz to me is one of the inherent expressions of Negro Life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul—the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile. Yet the Philadelphia clubwoman… turns up her nose at jazz and all its manifestations—likewise almost anything else distinctly racial…She wants the artist to flatter her, to make the white world believe that all Negroes are as smug as near white in smug as she wants to be. But, to my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist …to change through the hidden force of his art that old whispering “I want to be white,” hidden in the aspirations of his people, to “Why should I want to be white? I am Negro—and beautiful.”

Jazz to me is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul-the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile. Yet the Philadelphia club woman , turns up her nose at jazz and all its manifetations-likewise almost anything else distinctly racial... She wants the artist to flatter her, to make the white world believe that all Negroes are as smug and as near white in soul as she wants to be. But, to my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want to be white, hidden in the aspirations of his people, to "Why should I want to he white? I am Negro-and beautiful"

“JAZZ” is a documentary by Ken Burns released 2001 that focuses on the creation and development of jazz, America’s “greatest cultural achievement.” The first episodes entitled, “Gumbo, Beginnings to 1917” and “The Gift (1917-1924), explain the early growth of jazz as it originates in New Orleans and its expands to Chicago and New York during the Jazz Age. In assessing the first two episodes of Ken Burns' 2001 documentary, "JAZZ," this essay will explore the history of jazz, the music's racial implications, and it's impact on society. In doing so, attention will also be given to the structure of the documentary, and the effectiveness of documentary film in retelling the past.

The Harlem Renaissance help to how American view African American and their culture. The integration of black and white cultures during this time marked the beginning of black urban society and set the stage for the Civil Rights Movement and liberty and prosperity for all races.

The Harlem Renaissance was a time period of innovative and hard-won artistic,cultural, and social freedom for african americans. It began about 1914 and continued into the early 1930s. There were some that embraced their people’s folk history and african roots and a few even exploited white america’s ideas of the black culture. While others set out to change the misconception of views about the lives of african americans. There were many prominent people during the Harlem Renaissance that helped to break barriers against african americans (Harlem Renaissance.Gale.)

The Harlem Renaissance began with The Great Migration, a period of time where many of the African American population in the U.S. migrated from the south to the north. the reason being that the promise of land had not been delivered, the black codes restricted them, and in turn the African American population was forced into an endless cycle of debt and sharecropping. In the early 1900s, African Americans, also known as Negroes back then were considered inferior, ignorant, unskilled,

The Harlem Renaissance was an one of a kind era in which the black race to express their type of music ,dance ,art ,fashion , poetry , intellectuals and authors .Duke Ellington was a noble man with a dream that greatly impacted the harlem

The beginning of the harlem renaissance began with the head and founder of the NAACP(National Association For Advance Colored People ) W.E.B Du Bois saying a idea to start an organization for blacks to come together. After that same talk during the mid 1910s talked about the organization and the name for came about .Then in the mid 1920s about 1924 through 1925 the location was discussed between the head members in the NAACP. And in Harlem a location pointing to a theater where the place was to be at and have events. Naming it “The Harlem Renaissance,” soon atfer people started coming to see, do,and experience the renaissance that was going around.It was a new beiginng for black people to shw diffrent talents like art, literature ,and music accoring to HISTORY.COM. It was also during a good time

Learning about the history of Harlem itself may help better understand the Harlem Renaissance. Harlem, located in Manhattan, is historically a black community. Once the early twentieth century rolled around, it became a more predominantly black community. During that period of time it was known for its elegant living style and Victorian buildings. Many argue that the 1920s- 1930s was Harlem’s golden age as a tremendous amount of culture flourished and many began to breakthrough as mainstream artists (“Harlem”). To talk about the vast culture that emerged during that time intertwined into one paragraph would be way too

‘Jazz is music of urban civilisation and complexity, not a music of cultural isolation or of racial singularity. To understand its roots requires scholarly inquiry into the peculiar urban mix of late nineteenth century New Orleans, for it was that unique mix that gave rise to the music’

Jazz has been a very controversial issue. For some people, jazz has been the greatest invention ever, meanwhile for others, jazz has been a revolution from the ‘Negro’ community. In other word, white people did not took serious that jazz was getting into a new level. Jazz was revolutionizing the music industry. Even though white people was getting into the jazz environment, it still did not matter to the critics. I will get much more into criticizing throughout this essay because from 1997 to 1930 the jazz industry and the ‘Negro’ community was being attacked by criticism and racism. But jazz was not only an African American music, towards the 1920’s, White people started to get involved in jazz industry.

In my opinion the Harlem Renaissance gave blacks a sense a pride. It was one of the first things blacks had to be proud for. Writings that were created then are still used today such as the Negro national anthem. Because of the Harlem Renaissance some people consider Harlem as the birth place of Jazz.

Jazz is a genre of music that was first developed by African American within their communities around the late 19th to early 20th century in the United States. Since then, Jazz has gained a lot of respect and grown into a classic. The genre is now well known in music history and has experienced a mass musical development throughout the decades. Jazz was established and evolved alongside such musical categories as blues and popular music, but what changed the way of music in America was none other than Jazz. From the 1920’s through the late 1950’s, Jazz was formed from the local hearts and souls of the African American community. In the mid-1930s, as the Great Depression stubbornly refused to lift, Jazz became America’s popular music, its impact was so strong, and it could be called revolutionary. The music held stories and experiences that were important to the communities and reflective of their struggles.

Jazz is not only an artform, but also a story of a race. Jazz was created to help deal with the oppression many African Americans faced throughout the 1800-1900 time era and to explain their story. Dr. Ruth Mark Katz describes jazz as containing the “holocaustic aberration” of slavery in other words meaning jazz is a “symbolic record

To truly understand why music, and jazz, remain such a monumental part of African-American culture, it is important to look at the whole picture that America presents