THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Racism had a significant impact on the US in the 1920’s.
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People read more poetry in the 1920’s than today.
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The Harlem Renaissance was a time when African Americans celebrated their culture in different art forms.
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There was less racism in the 1920’s than in the years before.
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Detailed explanation-1: -During the 1920s and 1930s, Harlem was a haven, a place of self-discovery, cultural awareness, and political activism for African Americans. It nourished an artistic flowering of unprecedented richness. It was literature, painting, and music; it was movies, poetry, and jazz.
Detailed explanation-2: -Langston Hughes was the only black writer during the Renaissance who became truly taken with jazz; he infused his poetry with the sounds and feeling of the blues–its improvisational nature, syncopated rhythms, and repetitive phrases–creating a powerful challenge to the status quo.
Detailed explanation-3: -When he wrote about jazz, Hughes often incorporated syncopated rhythms, jive language, or looser phrasing to mimic the improvisatory nature of jazz; in other poems, his verse reads like the lyrics of a blues song. The result was as close as you could get to spelling out jazz.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lesson Summary Langston Hughes’ poem Harlem explains what could happen to dreams that are deferred or put on hold. The poem was initially meant to focus on the dreams of Blacks during the 1950s, but is relevant to the dreams of all people.