Harlem Renassaince

Investigate one aspect of culture during the Harlem Renaissance (music, art, literature, ect.).

MUSIC: Music during this period played an important role. The most common type of music was Jazz. this period was also called the Jazz Age since it was the type of music that represented this movement. The music played in piano was the symbol of wealth.
1. Name an important figure and his or her contribution to the movement. (1 sentence)

Lewis Grandison Alexander: Alexander did not live in Harlem, but he was a participant in the Harlem Renaissance movement. His location outside of Harlem helped to spread the new way of thinking that spread through NY. After writing, he moved around the country and joined whichever literary circles.

Harlem was an important movement in the US because it brought many advances in many áreas. Areas such as art and music were the ones that advanced the most thanks to Harlem .Literature, music, art, and many other aspects grew thanks to the movement, Jazz music was the main representation of the movement.  The African culture was able to settle during this period. With Harlem. African Americans were able to express their beliefs and practice their culture without being judged.
(Minimum 6 sentences and one image)

Transcendentalism

I wanted to live deep and suck out the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if proved to mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meaness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.

SONG: You don’t get another chance, life is no Nintendo game As long as the wrong feels right it’s like I’m in flight

EXPLANATION:

 I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not live.

SONG:
 What have we’ve done to the world
Look what we’ve done
What about all the peace
That you pledge your only son…
What about flowering fields
Is there a time
What about all the dreams
That you said was yours and mine…
Did you ever stop to notice
All the children dead from war

EXPLANATION:

These quotes explain how nature takes an important role on our life and how it can influnce in our decitions. With nature by our sides, we can connect to another kind of living organisms. Other living organisms can influence on what we think and observe. Nature is really important in our lives and we dont value nature as we should. The first quote explains that you need to live life however you want to and theres no need to follow the rules.  People tell you to follow you have only one life to live. If you dont do what you want, you would regret later that you didnt take certain challenges.