Sample Essay
The Harlem Renaissance was a short time period in American history from around after World War I to 1939(some sources take the period to between 1900-1940-others even longer) in which African-American culture in the mediums of music, literature and others grew to be extremely popular. It was during this time that the black music and literature was developed as a separate genre in American Society, although there are scholars who are critical of this approach.
Surprisingly even though there was a great deal of interest and appreciation associated with the works of blacks artist, there was still little progress in the acceptance of the black community as part of the mainstream American society. For example specially during this time period there were clubs which specialized in entertainment through black singers and musicians but hardly any members of the African-American community could frequent these clubs. This was simply because these clubs either prevented their entry or were simply out of the price range of most black members of the community. An actual example of such a club was the ‘Cotton Club’ which utilized black staff and black entertainers but did not allow any black clientele.
This era produced many brilliant writers. Some of these writers were Claude McKay, Zora Hurston, Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, and Langston Hughes. There were also philosophers like Alan Locke who contributed to the development of this movement.
Some of the key musicians and singers of this time were Bob Calloway, Florence Mills, Miles Davis, Benny Goodman and of course Duke Ellington one of the most important musicians of this time period.
However an important impact of this movement was that eventually many main-stream white musicians and writers recognized the role of these black artists as significant not only as black artists but as making important contributions to the American cultural scenario.
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