THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Nella Larsen
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Bessie Smith
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Josephine Baker
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Detailed explanation-1: -Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the “Empress of the Blues", she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1930s.
Detailed explanation-2: -At the height of her fame, blues singer Bessie Smith was really known as “the Empress.” So it was no joke when Romare Bearden titled his painting, Empress of the Blues.
Detailed explanation-3: -Who was Bessie Smith? Bessie Smith was one of the greatest blues vocalists ever. She made 160 recordings in all, in many of which she was accompanied by some of the great jazz musicians of the 1920s and ‘30s, including Fletcher Henderson, Benny Goodman, and Louis Armstrong.
Detailed explanation-4: -’Backwater Blues’ In her recording career, Smith worked with many important jazz performers, such as saxophonist Sidney Bechet and pianists Fletcher Henderson and James P. Johnson. With Johnson, she recorded one of her most famous songs, “Backwater Blues."
Detailed explanation-5: -Portrait of Bessie Smith holding feathers. Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1936. Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress.