1. The Arts at Home and
Abroad

2. Roaring 20’s
 Black artists within the culture
 Recognition
 “New Negros”
 Racial equality
 Two important questions!

3. Recorded Music and
Radio
 Mamie Smith
 Sparked a new trend
 Blind Lemon Jefferson
 Black Swan Records
 Radio
 Cotton Club

4. Mamie Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiJrBgbwsJw

5. Blind Lemon Jefferson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXC1jjRCXtg

6. Jazz Roots and Routes
 “Roaring Twenties” also called “Jazz Age”
 Evolution
 New York Jazz
 James Reese Europe
 Louis Armstrong
 Duke Ellington

7. James Reese Europe Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBGwx8VZ6ws

8. Louis Armstrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VCwBzGdPM

9. Motion Picutres
 Birth of a Nation
 Black talent

10. Black Theater
 Prewar years
 Postwar theater
 Black Musicals
 The Charleston

11. The Harlem Renaissance
 The Tenderloin
 The Marshall Hotel
 Black Periodicals
 Women

12. Visual Arts
 Alain Locke’s proposal
 High demand
 Photographers and Illustrators
 Painters

14. Paintings from the 1920’s

15. Clashing Artistic Values
 Controversy
 Art as Propaganda
 Race Literature
 Art and Social Change
 Stock market crash of 1929