The Harlem Renaissance Movement

Spanning the 1920s to the mid-1930s, the Harlem Renaissance was a literary, dodgeistic, and intelligent movement that kindled a new black ethnical identity. Its essence was summed up by critic and teacher Alain Locke when he declared in 1926, that by dint of art, Negro life is take its first chances for group materialisation and self determination. Harlem became the center of a spiritual coming of age, in which Lockes, new Negro  alter social disillusionment to career pride. Chiefly literary, the Renaissance include the visual arts, and excluded neck, scorn its parallel emergence as a black art form.\nJazz grew out of the eras ragtime music, and its influence was not dependent to the musical arena. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald denominate the period from the end of the outstanding War to the bang-up embossment as the Jazz Age, for the pagan change it brought about as the music that defined it. bandage much of the country erect solace in the policies associated with Pr ohibition, Fitzgerald chronicled the hedonism demonstrate during the Jazz Age in many of his works, including The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tales from the Jazz Age. Speakeasies and nightclubs abounded in urban areas as Prohibition was routinely circumvented, or ignored outright. superstition in American participation remained a formidable obstacle, but jazz music and the assimilation it produced, offered Americans an unprecedented opportunity to move with one another no matter of race. White patrons routinely frequented jazz clubs to listen to African American performers like Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, and Duke Ellington.\nThe art produced at this time varied greatly in theme. It ranged from the depiction of impressive urban lifestyles to mundane campestral landscapes. From the frivolous daily motions of individuals to the all-encompassing, and revealing themes of slavery and cultural origins in Africa. A notable commutation theme is the depiction , and reinterpretation of...