Arts and Letters of the Harlem Renaissance: Crash Course Black American History #26

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  • The Harlem Renaissance was one of the richest, most vibrant, and most culturally generative artistic periods in American history and the work that emerged from that period continues to shape the landscape of American arts and letters today. In this episode, we’re going to explore some of the writers, artists, and musicians who turned Harlem into a world-renowned hub of art and culture, and delve into the factors that brought them all together in the first place.
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    Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (New York: Pantheon Books, 1998).
    Cheryl Wall, Women of the Harlem Renaissance (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).
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  • @le-ore
    @le-ore 2 ปีที่แล้ว +174

    ARTISTS
    2:43 Richmond Barthé
    3:07 James Van Der Zee
    3:18 Aaron Douglas
    3:35 Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
    WRITERS
    4:04 Langston Hughes
    7:10 James Weldon Johnson
    7:33 Arthur Schomburg
    8:00 Walter White
    8:10 Claude McKay + Countee Cullen
    9:09 Alain Locke
    9:36 Gwendolyn Bennett + Zora Neale Hurston
    MUSICIANS
    10:27 Ma Rainey + Bessie Smith
    10:59 Duke Ellington
    11:11 Eubie Blake + Billie Holiday

    • @drunkpiss
      @drunkpiss ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ILYSM OMG

    • @zargomik
      @zargomik ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you for helping me with my APUSH assignment!

  • @jesselockhart1230
    @jesselockhart1230 2 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    In the previous episodes, you'd think Black American History was all bleak and miserable. In many ways you'd be right, but this episode was your breath of fresh air. Despite our dark past we made ways to make beauty, and culture around it and sense about it.

  • @kairyumina6407
    @kairyumina6407 2 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    Here to say again, this is hands down the best CrashCourse content produced to date. The level of thorough well researched primary source material, the insistence that we look with empathy at the experiences of people in the past, the pace and passion of the delivery, just top notch all around.

  • @OctaviusRomulus
    @OctaviusRomulus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    This series is the apex of Crash Course, IMHO. So well researched, so well written, so well presented. I can tell that every word is deliberately chosen, and spoken with deep intention. Extraordinary work.

  • @SpeakShibboleth
    @SpeakShibboleth 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    I did a semester class on the Harlem Renaissance, focusing on the visual arts, and it still felt like I barely scratched the surface. So much beauty was brought into the world in such a short time. It's incredible.

  • @tyronechillifoot5573
    @tyronechillifoot5573 2 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    A lot of modern slang comes from jazz culture

  • @lhfirex
    @lhfirex 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Langston Hughes is my favorite US poet. I'm not really a big poetry fan, probably because outside of Hughes, most of the stuff I've read is stuff forced upon me in school, and you know how drab most of that is. But his works just feel so different. I don't know the exact right word for it, but the wordplay is fantastic, the language doesn't feel pretentious or overly flowery, and the message behind the poems is easy to think about and pick up on. There's just something about his work that I love.

  • @microsofterror880
    @microsofterror880 2 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    You guys always post content for my lessons at the perfect time

  • @theworldsonheroin
    @theworldsonheroin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    To me, this series seems like a great basis for how the Black American experience should be taught in schools.

  • @Spongebrain97
    @Spongebrain97 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I like how jazz and relating music literally spawned just about every form of music that is relevant in America

  • @h.t.7310
    @h.t.7310 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My life has been struck, my ignorance destroyed. You have changed my life. Thank you.

  • @VoteBidentoSaveDemocracy
    @VoteBidentoSaveDemocracy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    I have been waiting for this video for so long! Langston Hughes's work inspired my love of poetry.

  • @madwiesel3466
    @madwiesel3466 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I love the black community for gifting us such precious things as jazz and blues

  • @scapegoatiscariot2767
    @scapegoatiscariot2767 2 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    If it were not for content such as this, there are many people who would not know very much at all about black history in America or the will of racist people who oppressed, tortured and murdered black people unto this very day.
    For one like myself who can't sit and read tomes of history as I'd like, your work is greatly appreciated.

  • @scapegoatiscariot2767
    @scapegoatiscariot2767 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    As a musician myself, I honor the black Americans with the creation of blues, jazz and rock and roll. As a clear example - without the previous influence of blues and jazz, what would the Beatles, Led Zeppelin or The Who have sounded like?

  • @MrLeoni2
    @MrLeoni2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Makes me even prouder as I went to Alain Locke Public School in Philadelphia, which is names after Mr. Locke back in the early 70s.

  • @ytgytgy
    @ytgytgy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I literally just learned about the Harlem Renaissance a couple hours ago for homework and this pops up 😃

  • @turdl38
    @turdl38 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    normal human: I want Morgan Freeman's voice on everything. Me: I want Clint Smith's voice on everything.

  • @tanyapedersen-barr8874
    @tanyapedersen-barr8874 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love this series. Clint Smith is the best teacher.

  • @WolfRaven119
    @WolfRaven119 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Great video and fantastic speaker ❤

  • @odalizvazquez5869
    @odalizvazquez5869 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love this series. It has been extremely helpful in my classroom.

  • @natalieshepp641
    @natalieshepp641 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you so for covering so much in such a short amount of time. Love these videos..

  • @Ngamotu83
    @Ngamotu83 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I'm surprised no mention was made of Robert Johnson, one of the most influential blues musicians, and a legend in more than one way.

  • @Griff01
    @Griff01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Truly enjoyed watching, heading some stuff I knew, but also the new.The musical contribution always has a place in my heart

  • @nathnieloleary502
    @nathnieloleary502 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for teaching me pioneers of the Harlem renaissance that I didn’t know😍

  • @henriomoeje8741
    @henriomoeje8741 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We owe these people a great deal of gratitude for projecting the image of the black race through poetry, music, art, etc 🙏🏿☮♥️

  • @LegoLordPro
    @LegoLordPro 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Looking at Black American art, they do try to symbolize the term freedom in the way how it is also telling the story of Black life in American society at that time.

  • @stax6092
    @stax6092 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Excellent as always.

  • @hishlev
    @hishlev 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Sweet coincidence. I had a passage on Harlem Renaissance yesterday in my GRE test

  • @jasminemorris759
    @jasminemorris759 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Am so excited to view where this crash course is going. I look forward going to the shomburg research center for the Eubie Blake for his musical screen play

  • @chukc2012
    @chukc2012 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Once again.
    Thank you!

  • @halim1016
    @halim1016 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    First time I saw him smiling in his video. Lol.

  • @mustbeaweful2504
    @mustbeaweful2504 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great stuff!

  • @iLLeag7e
    @iLLeag7e 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good stuff Clint

  • @sara_sah-raezzat5086
    @sara_sah-raezzat5086 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You read that poem powerfully

  • @jamaicansistarobinson7587
    @jamaicansistarobinson7587 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "The Spanish Needle" by Claude Makay. Big up to Grange Hill Primary School, Westmoreland-JamRock.

  • @theone614777
    @theone614777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Cool video

  • @falanajerido875
    @falanajerido875 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The best

  • @natalieshepp641
    @natalieshepp641 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I would love to know if my ancestors were a part of this amazing part of history??

  • @London-Lad
    @London-Lad 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    🎧 Podcasts? 🎧
    Does this creator have a podcast on Google or can anybody recommend any good Podcasts along this or any other interesting genres?
    Any will do.
    I'm very open and broad minded.
    Many thanks 🙏😉

  • @sjiyane6444
    @sjiyane6444 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hey everyone 🤗🤗🤗

  • @djbslectures
    @djbslectures 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤️

  • @jase09218
    @jase09218 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Harlem!

  • @nswanberg
    @nswanberg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Too early for Motown?