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A jazz style first expressed in the early 1940's based on decreased emphasis on melodies and expanded interest in the harmonics and musical dynamics of a given tune. Relied heavily on improvisational performance and higher levels of virtuosity from its practitioners.
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| Usually consists of improvised performance which affords the musician the opportunity to benefit from cutting, learning tunes, honing techniques, developing improvisational skills. ( The old jazz university ) |
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| A musical variety show consisting of songs, dance and topical sketches, and which is loosely organized around a theme. |
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| A music style expressed through the merger of jazz idioms with "pop" music elements, especially electronic. |
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| A device used to "color" the sound of brass instruments. |
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| Originally referred to a band of twelve or more. In modern times it refers to a band of nine or more. |
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| Using the human voice improvisationally in the form of a musical instrument. |
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| This national leader wrote the famous autobiography Up From Slavery and founded the Tuskegee Institute. |
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| Considered the greatest African-American scholar, he was co-founder of the NAACP, editor of Crisis Magazine, and a major art critic and political activist. |
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| He wrote the lyrics of the Black national anthem and the early Broadway musicals "Shoofly Regiment," and "Red Moon," the poetry collection God's Trombones and the novel Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. He was also president of the NAACP and an ambassador to Venezuela. |
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a. Great Migration
b. job opportunities
c. change in racial climate
d. WWI
e. concept of New Negro |
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| Name three social and cultural changes that precipitated the Harlem Renaissance. |
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| Founded by Marcus Garvey in 1916, this "Back to African" organization was the largest African-American organization in US history |
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a. Black Star
b. shipping line, factories
c. schools, restaurants, and hotels
d. Negro World |
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| name four enterprises of the UNIA |
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| Coming of age durin the HR, he is perhaps the most popular and prolific A-A poet and writer. His works The weary blues, jesse b. simple, and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" |
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| This writer incorporated Black folk language, music, and lore into his poetry and wrote "Strong Men" |
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| He insisted on writing on his own historical experience --> instrinsic |
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| What is the main idea espoused in Langon Hughes artical "The Negro Artist and Racial Mountain?" |
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| The race riots occuring all over the country |
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| What event(s) inspired Claude McKay to write "If We Must Die?" |
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19th Century-->followed European trend--> landscape, still painting, portrait
encouraged by Alan Locke--> draw from own African roots -- > Black Figures |
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| How did visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance-Aaron Douglas, Sargent johnson, Palmer hayden, Archibald Motley, Hale Woodruff, Augusta Savage, William H. Johnson-differ from 19th century A-A artists? |
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Crisis magazine -- W.E.B. DuBois
Opportunity -- Urban League
The Menssenger -- Randall Owens |
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| Name three literary publication venues for Harlem Renaissance artists |
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| This Black Broadway musical produced in 1921 ushered in a new wave of Black musicals during the HR |
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| Who was the all-star athlete, actor, singer, scholar, and political activist of international fame who career was systematically destroyed by the US govt during the McCarthy era? |
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Locke -> artistic excellence and craftsmanship
DuBois -> felt all art is propoganda
{Father of the School of Protest} |
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| Briefly discuss the difference in aesthetics of Alan Locke and W.E.B. DuBois |
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| Performed in the Black Broadway musical Runin Wild, it became the dance craze during the 1920's and 30's. |
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| Author and anthropologist who wrote the critically aclaimed novel Their Eyes Were Watching God |
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| Singer and dancer who left America in the 1920's to live in Paris where she became an int'l sensation and the highest paid performer in France? |
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| The early gospel hymn was developed by this minister from PA? |
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| A gifted contralto, she aws the first A-A woman to perform with the Metro Opera |
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| Called the "Father of Traditional Gospel," he wrote between 800 - 1000 gospel songs? |
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syncopation
polyrhythmic
improvisation
call && response |
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| Name four characteristics of Black Music? |
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high intensity color
adavist aesthetic
shine/luminousity && radiance
captivating imagery
African textiles |
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| Name some characteristics of Black Visual Art? |
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Polyrhythm
repetition
dialect
flexibility
positive movement
humor/sarcasm |
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| name characteristics of Black Poetry |
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| Known for her profound expression of emotions, this popular jazz singer was plauged by heroin addiction and police harassment |
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| Dancers who learned to dance independently on the streets? |
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| Bill "Bojangles" Robinson |
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| Popular tap dancer and screen star that developed the "stair dance" style |
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hooting
stairdance
show dance
flash dance style
soft-shoe style |
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| Name some tap dance styles |
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| Brown vs. Board of Education |
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| Name of the Supreme court decision that legislated the desegregation of public schools. |
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| jazz pianist turned singer, famous for his unique velvet voice. He was the first A-A to have his own television show. |
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| Singer and pianist who popularized "freedom songs" during the Civil rights and Black Liberation Movement. |
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| Improvisational visual artist |
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| Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, and Haki Madhabuti were pioneers of ____________? |
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