Referring to the tremendous amount of interest in African-American artists such as himself, Langston Hughes famously remarked that "the Negro was in vogue" during the Harlem Renaissance. But despite the fact that artists of all types, including musicians, writers, poets, filmmakers and painters, were receiving unprecedented attention from white publishers, white record company owners, and white patrons of the arts, what did the artists of the Renaissance and the Blues Queens accomplish? How important was it to the New Negro Movement to have cultural representatives like these celebrities? And how important were these cultural icons to African American audiences? What did they represent? Feel free to make comparisons and draw parallels to present-day or recent cultural movements and celebrities and icons

Referring to the tremendous amount of interest in African-American artists such as himself, Langston Hughes famously remarked that "the Negro was in vogue" during the Harlem Renaissance. But despite the fact that artists of all types, including musicians, writers, poets, filmmakers and painters, were receiving unprecedented attention from white publishers, white record company owners, and white patrons of the arts, what did the artists of the Renaissance and the Blues Queens accomplish? How important was it to the New Negro Movement to have cultural representatives like these celebrities? And how important were these cultural icons to African American audiences? What did they represent? Feel free to make comparisons and draw parallels to present-day or recent cultural movements and celebrities and icons