https://padlet.com/chupinc/pjv56n01pb1n By Orlane Capel, Maëva Ehouzou & Camille Chupin en-us 2017-03-03 16:40:40 UTC 2017-03-03 19:07:00 UTC hello@padlet.com chupinc https://padlet.com/chupinc/pjv56n01pb1n/wish/157668108

Harlem Renaissance (1920s to the mid-1930s) was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that brought a new black cultural identity. Harlem became the center of a “spiritual coming of age”. This was the birth of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts, and the most influential movement in African American literary history. Many had come from the South, fleeing its oppressive caste system in order to find a place where they could freely express their talents. They also sought to break free of Victorian moral values and bourgeois shame about aspects of their lives that might, as seen by whites, reinforce racist beliefs. 

The term "Jazz Age" was used by many who saw African American music, especially the blues and jazz, as the defining features of the Renaissance. However, both jazz and the blues were imports to Harlem. They emerged out of the African American experience around the turn of the century in southern towns and cities, like New Orleans, Memphis, and St. Louis. From these origins these musical forms spread across the country, north to Chicago before arriving in New York a few years before World War I (atround 1905).

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At 10 she was rapped and then turned to prostitution and after she has been arrested instead she was just a teen. At this time she became the queen of Jazz and began to sing in the Harlem night clubs. Then she performed with the biggest names in Jazz. Her surname turned to “Lady day”. She never had formation for her voice. Then she joined a lot of different music band to produce herself. She was the first black woman to performed with a music band composed exclusively of white mens. After this time, she was fed up with the discrimination that people were doing, so she decided to returned to NY. She became famous for the song “the strange fruit” that is talking about segregation and racism. Already abusing to alcohol and marijuana, she took stronger substances like opium and heroine and because of that she spread a big part of her economies… In 1957, she was arrested for drugs possessions. Then she became unable to performs in cafés or nightclubs. Billie returned to the performing studio. But her addiction paid on her body that can’t support much more anymore, so she died in 1959.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs → music of Strange Fruit

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