Music+in+the+Harlem+Renaissance

= = =Music in the Harlem Renaissance. = = = = = =[|Billie Holiday]= 1. What is the bitter fruit hanging from the tree? Why? 2. What is the message to society in Holiday's song?

= Jazz Age links =

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Watch the video for a reading of Langston Hughes' "I've Known Rivers"

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1. What is the message to white America about Black heritage? 2. What does this message about heritage mean to the Black American?

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A Brief Guide to Jazz Poetry. //Poetry.org// //[]// 1. What message did the Jazz Poetry have for the Black American? 2. Relate this article to what Zora Neale Hurston says about jazz music in “What it’s like to be colored me.” []

Read the biography of Zora Neale Hurston http://zoranealehurston.com/ http://zoranealehurston.com/about/

Read “Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes and find a connection to “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Go to []

1. What messages is Dunbar giving to white America about the “face of the Black American?” 2. What message is Dunbar giving to his fellow Black Americans?