This week, your assignment is to explore the legacy of the black artist during the Harlem Renaissance in Harlem, New York. Please review the section in Chapter 14: The Modernist World on the Harlem Renaissance and then view these two videos on this movement in art, paying close attention to the sections on music. Then, you will need to choose one of the following artists to write aboutHistory Brief: The Harlem Renaissance (Links to an external site.)
Minimize Video and Harlem Renaissance Music Playlist (Links to an external site.).
· Louis Armstrong
· Duke Ellington
· Benny Goodman
· Ha
y James
· Glenn Mille
· Tommy Dorsey
· Count Basie
· Artie Shaw
· Ella Fitzgerald
· Bessie Smith
· Billie Holiday
· Fats Walle
· Jelly Roll Morton
· Willie Smith
Once you've chosen a musician, please explore his or her music in depth. In two pages, discuss your artist's role in the Harlem Renaissance and the humanities. Please refer to the Files section for an assignment sheet with questions to get you started as well as the grading ru
ic for the assignment.
This week, you’re exploring the world of music during the Harlem Renaissance, an electrifying time for
oth music and American history. Please spend some time answering the following questions to help
you along your way in this assignment.
1. What was the history of black music in the south that eventually evolved into jazz?
2. What was the Great Migration and how did this phenomenon contribute to what would
eventually become the Harlem Renaissance?
3. What are the basic properties of music? (How is music put together?)
Once you’ve answered the above questions for yourself and listened to the music of your artist, please
then ask yourself this question.
1. Alaine Lock said that through the Harlem Renaissance, “Negro life is seizing its first chances for
group expression and self-determination.” How do you think your artist contributed to the
group expression of the Harlem Renaissance?
Once you’ve answered the above question, you have a good start to the thesis for your reflection paper.
Please use credible resources and concrete examples such as music a
angement, lyrics, technique, and
so forth, to back up your ideas.
This paper should be two double-spaced pages, in APA format, include a reference page if you use
outside sources, and show evidence of new learning on your part.
RUBRIC
Week 7: Reflection Assignment: Experiencing Music
Week 7: Reflection Assignment: Experiencing Music
Criteria
Ratings
Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAssignment Requirements:
The student has written two full, double-spaced pages and answered all necessary questions and components of the assignment. The student explains which musician they chose and why.
10.0 pts
Full Marks
0.0 pts
No Marks
10.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeConventions of Music:
The student has described the basic properties of music they've chosen (how the music is put together).
20.0 pts
Full Marks
0.0 pts
No Marks
20.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeHistorical Aspect:
The student has taken into account the heritage of black music, the Great Migration, and the ethnic expression of jazz in the Harlem Renaissance.
20.0 pts
Full Marks
0.0 pts
No Marks
20.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeRole of the Musician:
The student has written a strong essay on the role of their artist in the Harlem Renaissance and the humanities.
25.0 pts
Full Marks
0.0 pts
No Marks
25.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeGrammar, Mechanics, and Style:
Grammar refers to co
ectness of language usage. Mechanics refers to conventional co
ectness in capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Style includes word choice, sentence variety, clarity, and conciseness. Also, sentences vary in length and structure; ideas are clear, logical, and concise.
10.0 pts
Full Marks
0.0 pts
No Marks
10.0 pts
Total Points: 85.0
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This is the section from chapter 14 on the book.
The Harlem Renaissance
Soon after Reconstruction, the period immediately following the Civil War, Southern states passed a group of laws that effectively established a racial caste system that relegated black Americans to second-class status and institutionalized segregation. In the South, the system was known as Jim Crow. In the years before the out
eak of World War I, nearly 90 percent of all African Americans lived in the South, three-quarters of them in the rural South. Lured by a huge demand for labor in the North once the war began, impoverished after a boll weevil infestation ruined the cotton crop, and threatened especially by the rise of white te
orists like the Ku Klux Klan, whose membership reached some 4 million by the early 1920s, blacks flooded into the North. In the course of a mere 90 days early in the 1920s, 12,000 African Americans left Mississippi alone. An average of 200 left Memphis every night. Many met with great hardship, but there was wealth to be had as well, and anything seemed better than life under Jim Crow in the South. From 1915 through 1918, as war raged in Europe, between 200,000 and 350,000 Southern blacks moved north in what came to be called the Great Migration.
As the Great Migration proceeded, racial tension erupted. The jobs that black workers were promised by recruiters in the South often turned out to be jobs as strike
eakers, and striking workers retaliated. In addition, as veterans returned home after the war to jobs now occupied by blacks, animosity flared. In East St. Louis, Illinois, in 1917, as blacks were a
iving at a rate of about 2,000 a week, finding work at the Aluminum Ore Company and American Steel Company where white workers were on strike, riots
oke out that resulted in somewhere between 40 and 200 dead, and as many as 6,000 blacks left homeless. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921, whites burned down 40 city blocks of what was the most prosperous black business district in the Southwest, destroying 23 African-American churches and over 1,000 homes and businesses. The number of African-American dead is today estimated at over 100. Nevertheless, in New York, the Great Migration inspired a cultural community so robust, and so new, that the era has come to be known as the Harlem Renaissance.