The Harlem Renaissance Movement

Spanning the 1920s to the mid-1930s, the Harlem Renaissance was a literary, craftistic, and intellect movement that kindled a new black pagan identity. Its essence was summed up by critic and teacher Alain Locke when he declared in 1926, that with art, Negro life is seizing its first chances for group fount and self determination. Harlem became the center of a spiritual coming of age, in which Lockes, new Negro  alter social disillusionment to festinate pride. Chiefly literary, the Renaissance include the visual arts, only when excluded grapple, notwithstanding its parallel emergence as a black art form.\nJazz grew out of the eras ragtime music, and its influence was not cut back to the musical arena. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald label the period from the end of the grand War to the nifty impression as the Jazz Age, for the cultural change it brought about as the music that defined it. charm much of the country piece solace in the policies associated with Prohibitio n, Fitzgerald chronicled the hedonism represent 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 hostelry remained a formidable obstacle, but jazz music and the gardening it produced, offered Americans an unprecedented opportunity to act with one another careless(predicate) 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 highfalutin urban lifestyles to mundane rural landscapes. From the frivolous daily motions of individuals to the all-encompassing, and sullen themes of slavery and cultural origins in Africa. A notable central theme is the depiction, and reinterpretati on of...