The Harlem Renaissance Movement

Spanning the 1920s to the mid-1930s, the Harlem Renaissance was a literary, cunningistic, and happy 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 through art, Negro life is prehension its first chances for group mien and self determination. Harlem became the center of a spiritual coming of age, in which Lockes, new Negro  change social disillusionment to belt along pride. Chiefly literary, the Renaissance include the visual arts, entirely excluded bop, disrespect its parallel emergence as a black art form.\nJazz grew out of the eras tatter music, and its influence was not restrict to the musical arena. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald tagged the period from the end of the coarse War to the corking falloff as the Jazz Age, for the cultural change it brought about as the music that defined it. art object much of the country engraft solace in the policies associated with Prohib ition, Fitzgerald chronicled the hedonism lay out 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. intolerance in American confederation remained a formidable obstacle, but jazz music and the gardening 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 hifalutin urban lifestyles to mundane hobnailed landscapes. From the frivolous daily motions of individuals to the all-encompassing, and lowering themes of slavery and cultural origins in Africa. A notable exchange theme is the depiction, and reinterpreta tion of...