The Arts at Home and Abroad

Roaring 20’s

Black artists within the culture

Recognition

“New Negros”

Racial equality

Two important questions!

Recorded Music and Radio

Mamie Smith

Sparked a new trend

Blind Lemon Jefferson

Black Swan Records

Radio

Cotton Club

Mamie Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiJrBgbwsJw

Blind Lemon Jeffersonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXC1jjRCXtg

Jazz Roots and Routes

“Roaring Twenties” also called “Jazz Age”

Evolution

New York Jazz

James Reese Europe

Louis Armstrong

Duke Ellington

James Reese Europe Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBGwx8VZ6ws

Louis Armstronghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VCwBzGdPM

Motion Picutres

Birth of a Nation

Black talent

Black Theater

Prewar years

Postwar theater

Black Musicals

The Charleston

The Harlem Renaissance

The Tenderloin

The Marshall Hotel

Black Periodicals

Women

Visual Arts

Alain Locke’s proposal

High demand

Photographers and Illustrators

Painters

Photography by

James Van Der

Zee

Paintings from the 1920’s

Clashing Artistic Values

Controversy

Art as Propaganda

Race Literature

Art and Social Change

Stock market crash of 1929