LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Convinced African Americans to create a new society all to themselves
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Became the most influential musician during the Harlem Renaissance or Jazz Era
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Painted Influential Paintings of African American Subject Matter
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Wrote Literature
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Detailed explanation-1: -Armstrong changed the jazz during the Harlem Renaissance. Being known as “the world’s greatest trumpet player” during this time he continued his legacy and decided to continue a focus on his own vocal career. The popularity he gained brought together many black and white audiences to watch him perform.
Detailed explanation-2: -Duke Ellington He is known as the world’s greatest jazz composer, performing in countless venues. Most notably, and perhaps most famously during The Harlem Renaissance, he played at the white-only Cotton Club in Harlem.
Detailed explanation-3: -1. Louis Armstrong. It’s safe to say that Louis Armstrong is hands down one of the most important musicians in jazz history.
Detailed explanation-4: -Louis Armstrong is rightly celebrated as a master jazz trumpeter, but his distinctive gravelly-voiced singing also had a huge influence on later artists. His vocal improvisations and the powerful feeling of swing that he brought to everything he sang loosened up the more formal style of his contemporaries.
Detailed explanation-5: -Louis Armstrong was the most important and influential musician in jazz history. Although he is often thought of by the general public as a lovable, clowning personality, a gravel-voiced singer who played simple but dramatic trumpet in a New Orleans-styled Dixieland setting, Armstrong himself was so much more.