CULTURAL CLIMATE OF THE 1920s AND 1930s HARLEM RENAISSANCE LITERATURE MUSIC ART

CULTURAL CLIMATE OF 1920s & 1930s ART: Georgia O’Keeffe MUSIC: Aaron Copeland & George Gershwin LITERATURE: F. Scott Fitzgerald & John Steinbeck CULTURAL CLIMATE OF 1920s & 1930s

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE KNOWN FOR URBAN SCENES LATER PAINTINGS OF THE SOUTHWEST FLOWERS – SO MANY FLOWERS! November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986 GEORGIA O’KEEFFE

O’Keeffe Art

AARON COPLAND & GEORGE GERSHWIN COMPOSERS WROTE UNIQUELY AMERICAN MUSIC TIN PAN ALLEY: NYC-28th St. between 5th and 6th Avenues was the legendary Tin Pan Alley where the business of the American popular music flourished in the first decades of the 20th century. Rhapsody in Blue-Gershwin Rodeo Hoe Down: Copland AARON COPLAND & GEORGE GERSHWIN

Aaron Copland George Gershwin November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937

F. Scott Fitzgerald & John Steinbeck Both wrote about the 1920s & 1930s FITZGERALD: The Jazz Age in the 1920s STEINBECK: The strength of poor migrant farmers during the 1930s The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck F. Scott Fitzgerald & John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937

F. Scott Fitzgerald September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940

HARLEM RENAISSANCE ART: Jacob Lawrence LITERATURE: Langston Hughes LEADERS OF HARLEM RENAISSANCE DREW UPON HERITAGE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE ESTALISHED THEMSELVES AS POWERFUL FORCES FOR CULTURAL CHANGE ART: Jacob Lawrence LITERATURE: Langston Hughes MUSIC: Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong- Jazz Musicians; Bessie Armstrong-Blues singer HARLEM RENAISSANCE

JACOB LAWRENCE ARTIST/PAINTER CHRONICLED EXPERIENCES OF GREAT MIGRATION THROUGH ART September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000 JACOB LAWRENCE

Jacob Lawrence Paintings

POET COMBINED EXPERIENCES FROM BOTH AMERICAN & AFRICAN CULTURAL ROOTS February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967 LANGSTON HUGHES

DUKE ELLINGTON JAZZ MUSICIAN BAND LEADER TAKE THE “A” TRAIN April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974 DUKE ELLINGTON

LOUIS ARMSTRONG JAZZ MUSICIAN- TRUMPET “SATCHMO”- NICKNAME WHEN THE SAINTS COME MARCHING IN August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971 LOUIS ARMSTRONG

BLUES SINGER April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937 BESSIE SMITH