Harlem Renaissance

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

In the 1920s Harlem, a neighbourhood in the north of Manhattan, became the cultural centre of Black America. Writers such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, visual artists and musicians together shaped what later came to be called the Harlem Renaissance. The musical Shuffle Along by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake was a success on Broadway in 1921, with an all-Black cast. At the Cotton Club, Black performers played for an exclusively white audience; Duke Ellington led the house orchestra there from 1927 to 1931 and became known across the country through radio broadcasts, followed by Cab Calloway. At the Savoy Ballroom, opened in 1926, Black and white audiences did dance together. Music, dance and literature expressed a new self-confidence.

Listening

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  Stormy Weather · Ethel Waters, 1933
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  Creole Love Call · Duke Ellington, 1927
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  Black and Blue · Louis Armstrong, 1929

In School of Rock

The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.

• Jazz Map^NL Map
• After Hours: Session 1^NL Reader
• Magazine: Strange Fruit^NL Magazine
• Magazine: Van Bessie tot Ella^NL Magazine
• Magazine: Het Cotton Club^NL Magazine
• Magazine: Rent parties en stride^NL Magazine
• Magazine: Waarom Harlem^NL Magazine

See also

• James P. Johnson
• Fats Waller
• Ethel Waters
• Louis Armstrong
• Stride piano
• Delta blues
• New Orleans jazz
• Big band