Transcript Cultural Climate of the 1920s and 1930s

Nicholas Brothers in Stormy Weather
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBb9hTyLjfM
Flappers and the “Lost” Generation:
What was the Great
Migration North and West?
Jobs for African Americans in the
south were scarce and low
paying, so African Americans
moved to cities in the north and
midwest in search of better
employment opportunities.
African Americans faced
discrimination and violence in the
North and the Midwest.
Southern family arriving in Chicago during WWI.
What was the Harlem
Renaissance?
The Harlem Renaissance
African American artists, writers, and
musicians based in Harlem revealed the
freshness and variety of African
American culture.
These Harlem
Renaissance
leaders drew
upon the
heritage of
black culture to
establish
themselves as
powerful forces
for cultural
change.
The popularity of these artists
spread to the rest of society.
Musicians of the
1920s and the
Harlem
Renaissance
In music, Duke Ellington and Louis
Armstrong were both famous jazz
composers.
1. Louis Armstrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVKKRzemX_w&feature=related
(when the Saints come marching home)
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(Wonderful World)
(Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - They Can't Take That Away From
Me)
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(Louis Armstrong - Hello Dolly Live)
2. Duke Ellington
http://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=qDQpZT3GhDg
Take The "A"
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Bessie Smith was a
famous blues singer.
3. Bessie Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCrtE
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Cultural Climate of the 1920s and 1930s
Music
Aaron Copland wrote
unique American
music that evokes
strong emotions.
George Gershwin
composed unique
music that tells a
story.
Write in the margin next to George
Gershwin and Aaron Copland:
They wrote uniquely American
music
•Music: Aaron Copland and George Gershwin,
composers who wrote uniquely American music
•
George Gershwin
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Aaron Copland
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4. Aaron Copland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiLTwtuBio&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdfPbHmEY4w
Hoe-Down from "Rodeo" (Copland)
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5. George Gershwin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U40xBSz6Dc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wePM0aITzYc&feature=related
An American in Paris
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e=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
Artists of the 1920s
and the Harlem
Renaissance
What was the cultural climate of the
1920s and 1930s?
ART
In art, Georgia O’Keefe was
an artist known for urban
scenes, flowers, and later,
paintings of the southwest.
6. Georgia O'Keeffe:
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eature=related&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_
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Flowers
Georgia O'Keeffe talking about her life and
work(1977)
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eature=related&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_
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In art, Jacob Lawrence was a painter
who chronicled the Great Migration
north and west.
7. Jacob Lawrence
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Writers of the
1920s and the
Harlem
Renaissance
Cultural Climate of the 1920s and 1930s
Literature
John Steinbeck was a novelist
who portrayed the strength of poor
migrant workers in the 1930s.
8. John Steinbeck, “Of Mice and
Men”audiobook
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y
rP22_Wx67U&feature=related
Movie scene “Tell me about the
rabbits”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2
4zvMyxNAo&safety_mode=true&per
sist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
In literature,
Langston
Hughes was
a poet who
combined the
experiences
of African
and American
cultural
roots.
9. Langston Hughes (I too am America)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CUKyVrhPgM
(The Weary Blues)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyqwvC5s4n8
(A Dream Deferred)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbpt2y9qqlo
(Mother To
Son)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2ZPnRYnfw
A Dream Deferred
by Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Democracy will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.
I have as much right
As the other fellow has
To stand
On my two feet
And own the land.
Langston Hughes
(Lincoln University 1928)
Cultural Climate of the 1920s and 1930s
Literature
F. Scott Fitzgerald he was a novelist who
wrote about the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
The End