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Harlem Renaissance - Coggle Diagram
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz
Duke Ellington
Ellington often composed specifically for the style and skills of his individual musicians, such as "Concerto for Cootie" for trumpeter Cootie Williams, which later became "Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me" with Bob Russell's lyrics.
Ellington was an American composer, pianist and bandleader of jazz orchestras
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Billie Holiday
Holiday's autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, first published in 1956.
She was a traditionally bad kid. She dropped out of school at the age 11 after she was on parole for skipping school.
Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.
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Louis Armstrong
Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to cross over, whose skin color was secondary to his music.
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Poetry
Langston Hughes
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His art is generally suffused a sense of ideal in Americans and by a profound love of humanity, especially black Americans.
Zora Hurston
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She published a collection of these stories, entitled Mules and Men in 1935
Art
William H. Johnson
He was most known for his visuals and paintings with folk style, bright colors, and two dimensional figures.
He addressed how this kinship with people who are bound to nature can result in an art that expresses a traditional, spiritual essence.
Lois Jones
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Her art reflected the influences of African traditions, and she designed African-style masks.