The Harlem Renaissance - PowerPoint Presentation

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The

Harlem

Renaissance Slide2
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I, Too

by Langston Hughes

I, too, sing America

I am the darker brother.

They send me to eat in the kitchen

When company comes,

But I laugh,

And eat well,

And grow strong.

Tomorrow,

I’ll sit at the table

When company comes.

Nobody’ll dare

Say to me,

“Eat in the kitchen,”

Then.

Besides,

They’ll see how beautiful I am

And be ashamed –

I, too, am America.Slide4

If We Must Die

by Claude McKay

If we must die, let it not be like hogs

Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,

While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,

Making their mock at our

acursed

lot.

If we must die, O let us nobly die,

So that our precious blood may not be shed

In vain; then even the monsters we defy

Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!

O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!

Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,

And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!

What though before us lies the open grave?

Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,

Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!Slide5

Jazz from the 1920s

Louis

Armstrong—Chicago Breakdown

Duke

Ellington--It Don’t Mean a Thing if it

Aint

Got that Swing

  Louis Armstrong—Savoyager’s Stomp (20 seconds in)  Louis Armstrong—Heebie Jeebies Scat singing (1:15 in)Slide6

Harlem

Renaissance

Art Slide7
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Aspirations

Aaron DouglasSlide9

Blues

Archibald Motley, Jr.Slide10

The Ascent of Ethiopia

Lois

Mailou

JonesSlide11

Cocktails

Archibald Motley, Jr.Slide12

Into Bondage

Aaron DouglasSlide13

Saturday Night Street Scene

Archibald Motley, Jr.Slide14

Marcus GarveySlide15
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Note on Commercial Theater

by Langston Hughes

…..But

someday,

somebody’ll

stand

up and talk about me

and

write about me

black and beautifuland sing about meand put on plays about me!I reckon it’ll be me myself!Yes, it’ll be me.Slide17

Juice Joint: Northern City

by Langston

Huges

….But

suddenly a guitar playing lad

whose

languid lean brings back the sunny south

strikes

up a tune all gay and bright and glad

to keep the gall from biting in his mouthThen drowsy as the rainsoft sad black feetdance in this juice jointon this city streetSlide18

Harlem

Edward

BurraSlide19

Jazz from the 1920s

Louis

Armstrong—Chicago Breakdown

Duke

Ellington--It Don’t Mean a Thing if it

Aint

Got that Swing

  Louis Armstrong—Savoyager’s Stomp (20 seconds in)  Louis Armstrong—Heebie Jeebies Scat singing 1:30 inSlide20
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