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Louis Armstrong
One of the most famous jazz
musicians of the 20th century,
he first achieved fame as a
trumpeter, but toward the end
of his career he was best
known as a vocalist and was
one of the most influential
jazz singers.
African-American jazz composertrumpeter. He also sang in a gravelly
voice. (It’s a Wonderful World”)
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Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith is largely
regarded as the most popular
and successful blues singer of
the 1920s and 1930s, and by
some as the most influential
performer in blues history.
African-American blues singer
“Empress of the Blues”
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Duke Ellington
Many regard Duke Ellington
as one of the most important
figures to emerge from the
U.S. jazz scene in the
twentieth century. He was one
of the twentieth century's
best-known AfricanAmerican celebrities. He
recorded for many American
record companies, and
appeared in several films.
African-American jazz composer and
piano player. He was a well known
celebrity.
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Langston Hughes
Hughes was an American
poet, novelist, playwright,
short story writer, and
newspaper columnist. Hughes
is best known for his work
during the Harlem
Renaissance. He combined
the experiences of African
and American cultural roots
to reflect and lift AfricanAmericans in society. AfricanAmerican poet who combined the
experiences of African and American
cultural roots
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy
bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain:
The younger Negro artists who create now intend to express
our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame.
If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not,
it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly, too.
The tom-tom cries, and the tom-tom laughs. If colored
people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their
displeasure doesn't matter either. We build our temples for
tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of
the mountain free within ourselves.
Jacob Lawrence
Lawrence is easily among the
best-known twentieth century
African American painters.
African-American painter who
chronicled the experiences of the Great
Migration north through art.
The “Lost Generation”
in the
Jazz Age
George Gershwin
George Gershwin was an
American composer who
wrote uniquely American
music. Many of his
compositions have been used
on television and in numerous
films, and many became jazz
standards.
Composer who wrote uniquely
American music used in commercials
and on Broadway.
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Georgia O’Keefe
O'Keeffe has been a major
figure in American art since
the 1920s. “Her clear bright
paintings show the beauty she
found in simple, natural
things around her.” Artist known
for urban scenes and, later, paintings
of the Southwest which often had
flowers, and animal bones like skulls.
Aaron Copland
Copland was an American
composer of concert and film music.
Instrumental in forging a distinctly
American style of
composition, he was widely known as
"the dean of American
composers". Copland's music achieved
a difficult balance between modern and
American folk styles, said to represent the vast
American landscape.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald an Irish American
Jazz Age novelist and short
story writer. He wrote The
Great Gatsby.He is regarded
as one of the greatest
American writers of the
twentieth century. He finished
four novels, left a fifth
unfinished, and wrote dozens of
short stories in addition to his
musical accomplishments.
The Great Gatsby
Although
Fitzgerald, like
Nick Carraway
in his novel,
idolized the
riches and
glamor of the
age, he was
uncomfortable
with the
unrestrained
materialism
and the lack of
morality that
went with it.
The novel
chronicles an era
that Fitzgerald
himself dubbed the
"Jazz Age”
Cover of the first edition, 1925.
John Steinbeck
• John Steinbeck was a novelist (author)
who portrayed the strength of poor
migrant workers during the 1930s.
• “John Steinbeck arrived at the migrant
camps in northern California in the late
1930s with little experience as a
political writer. What he found stirred
enough anger to convince him to take
on the topic in what would become his
most famous novel, The Grapes of
Wrath.”
From the
movie starring
Henry Fonda
From the many works of John Steinbeck